Blogs added to Rogue Scholar

One blog was added in March. This increases the number of participating blogs (after adjusting for retired blogs) to 186 , the number of archived posts has grown to 49,606 – Rogue Scholar is getting closer to the big milestones of 200 participating blogs with 50,000 posts!

ORION-DBs

Library and Information Sciences, English.
https://orion-dbs.community/blog/

The a backlog of new blog submissions is still not resolved, so please be patient. You can always reach out via Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky to ask about the status of your submission.

Technical Updates

One focus of the technical work in March was on infrastructure improvements. The monitoring of the Rogue Scholar infrastructure was improved by deploying a self-hosted observability platform for logs, metrics and errors with dashboards and alerting using the Grafana open source platform:

Th dashboard for key metadata metrics initially released in March 2025 was improved visually and launched for communities, including blog communities:

This makes it much easier for readers to get an overview for each blog participating in Rogue Scholar, and for blog authors to see gaps in metadata coverage that they can improve.

This week the blog self-management in Rogue Scholar was improved, enabling blog owners to update all relevant blog metadata.

Community Updates

The technical updates mentioned above are part of an effort to align Rogue Scholar better with the InvenioRDM repository platform. This will make it easier in the long run to sustain and update Rogue Scholar, as an increasing proportion of the required functionality is built into InvenioRDM and developed and used by other repositories.

Please use Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments.

Rogue Scholar is a scholarly infrastructure that is free for all authors and readers. You can support Rogue Scholar with a one-time or recurring donation or by becoming a sponsor.

References

  1. Fenner, M. (2026, March 16). Increasing operational transparency in Rogue Scholar. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/3w24g-cdz85
  2. Fenner, M. (2026, March 26). Introducing Rogue Scholar community dashboards. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/809xc-y7r79
  3. Fenner, M. (2026, April 1). Rogue Scholar improves blog self-management. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/dp6ra-trw41