Commonmeta is a set of libraries to convert scholarly metadata into different formats via an intermediary format defined by JSON Schema. The schema is now available as a v1.0 version release candidate, with v1.0 planned to be released in September. The feature image of this post is from
Yesterday the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started using Crossref schema 5.5 that was released last Friday. The most relevant change in the new schema for Rogue Scholar is the introduction of a dedicated content type blog post (as type posted_content, subtype blog). This makes it easier to
The science blogging archive Rogue Scholar launched a new feature this week: author profile pages. This feature is similar to functionality common to blogging platforms, but integrates all blog posts by a given author that were archived in Rogue Scholar. The functionality depends on an ORCID assigned to the blog
This is the May 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar last week achieved an important milestone: archiving 50,000 science blog posts, will searchable full-text, rich metadata, and DOIs. Rogue Scholar started to archive science blog posts in April 2023, started archiving all content with the Internet Archive Archive-It service in October
Submitting a blog to the Rogue Scholar science blog archive requires filling out a simple form, and sometimes answering a few additional questions via email. In recent months I haven't caught up with the submissions and decided to implement a few changes. Participating in Rogue Scholar doesn'
Today the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching an OPML file export of all active blogs. OPML is the standard export format for blog feeds and includes the blog category and feed URL – Rogue Scholar uses the OpenAlex subject area subfield as category.
This is the April 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.
This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs for blogs, in addition to the DOIs for blog posts it registers since 2023.
This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching a weekly newsletter of featured English-language posts, joining the weekly newsletters of all posts written in German, Spanish or French.
This is the March 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.
This week the science blog archive Rogue Scholar improved the blog self-management functionality of the platform, allowing blog owners to change (almost) all blog settings themselves.