Explaining the ORCID Principles
On Monday I gave a presentation about ORCID, based on the ORCID Principles. The slides are hopefully a good introduction to ORCID and the current status of the initiative. A good in-person update of the ORCID...
Martin Fenner
Please help the Nippon Science Support Network
The recent tragic events in Japan have made it difficult or impossible for many Japanese scientists to continue their work. The newly launched Nippon Science Support Network has therefore established a database of positions and stipends...
Direct links to figures and tables using component DOIs
We are all familiar with digital object identifiers (DOIs) provided by CrossRef to identify (and link to) journal articles. Some...
Zotero 2.1 released with support for CSL 1.0
Version 2.1 of the reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. The biggest change for me is the support of Citation Style Language (CSL) 1.0. CSL is an open XML-based standard for citations and...
A very brief history of Scholarly HTML
The history of HTML begins 1989 at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau...
Discussing science with microformats
The best and quickest discussions of a scientific paper now sometimes happen in science blogs rather than in the peer-reviewed literature. Whereas we have a number of scholarly databases that track citations between papers, we don’...