Yesterday Julie McMurry and co-authors published a preprint 10 Simple rules for design, provision, and reuse of persistent identifiers for life science data. This is an important paper trying to address a fundamental problem: how can...
Using Markdown to author scholarly documents is an attractive alternative to the standard authoring tools Microsoft Word and LaTeX. The feeling shared by many is that Scholarly Markdown is 80% there, and that more effort is...
This blog has been on four different platforms since starting in 2007: a custom blogging engine and then Movable Type...
Metadata such as author, title, journal or persistent identifier are essential for scholarly documents, and some of us are spending...
Last week I wrote about software.lagotto.io, an instance of the lagotto open source software collecting metrics for the...
The iTunes Store was opened by Apple in 2003 to sell digital music and other digital assets. Since 2009 music...
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