Blog Posts
Blog posts about technology for scholarly publishing.
November 4, 2024
Are you interested in the technical side of scholarly publishing technology and
infrastructure? If so, you’re welcome to join the SPPIES Slack group.
SPPIES is short for Scholarly Publishing Programmers and Infrastructure
Enthusiasts, in homage to programmers’ love of acronyms. One of the ‘P’s is silent.
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October 30, 2024
DOIs, or Digital Object Identifiers, are everywhere, for a
given value of ’everywhere’. They are the identifiers used to identify and link
research outputs, and a lot more besides.
Humans are good at spotting patterns, and with something as ubiquitous as DOIs,
there are plenty of patterns to spot. However, with hundreds of millions of DOIs
and decades of history, it pays not to make generalisations.
These all cropped up in my 10 years at Crossref. Either observed in the scholarly community using DOIs, or when writing software to find and handle DOIs.
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October 1, 2024
The word ’technical’ hasn’t always had a great reputation. Think of phrases like ’technically correct’, ’technical details’, or ‘acquitted on a technicality’. It’s easier to think of more negative uses than positive ones. I think there are a couple of reasons for that.
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May 29, 2018
I presented these five principles at the altmetrics18 workshop. You can read the paper submitted to the workshop here. This post is a few years old, but all the ideas still stand up. At the time I was building Crossref Event Data, and discussing what it would take to build an data model that would support community-generated bibliometrics. A lot has changed since, but I think the principles are still relevant today.
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