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First blog post (and tweet) in a while! How we record technical decisions at Crossref.
crossref.org/blog/mending-ch…
We’re all so habituated to the pomp of Prince Charles’ coronation that gilded carriages seem unremarkable. We forget at our peril that this humble pedal vehicle sufficed for his mother.
ALT Pedal powered vehicle with ER royal cypher.
Joe Wass / https://fosstodon.org/@joewass retweeted
📢 Taking persistence to a new level: Floppy disks and their part in the scholarly record. bit.ly/3G47Bs3 #PersistenceIsKey #RenewedPersistence #floppydisks
ALT Old disk drive on a shelf with 3.5 and 5.5 inch floppy disks on top with Crossref logo stickers on them
Today we announce an update to our flexible data resilience strategy at @CrossrefOrg. Plus a bit of history.
crossref.org/blog/renewed-pe…
#scholcomm #openinfra #metadata #scholarlypublishing
ALT Floppy disk in disk drive
Happy #internationalbagpipeday!
ALT English border bagpipes
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I am a very chill person...
Putting the full-text behind a paywall🥱
Making the DOI a link & kinda hard to copy 😮💨
Playing hide & seek by means of DOI (dis)placement🙄
but this... this makes me unchill 👺
A PAYWALL FOR COPYING DOIs? REALLY? REALLYYY?
This kills any remaining good will.
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Twitter just prevented me from telling you my handle on a site beginnining with "M". It prompted a very visceral feeling. The question of free speech suddenly doesn't feel academic any more.
A profoundly wonderful Oxford Geek Night after such a long hiatus.
Quoth @benjaminbenben “These are the legs”.
@oxfordgeeks #ogn52
So excited to be returning to Oxford Geek Night! It’s been too long. And I’ll be talking about something typically … well you’ll have to see. #ogn52
In 2 weeks, it’s the return of Oxford Geek Nights! This is a regular meet-up for the tech scene in Oxford, hosted by @Torchbox on the 16th of November. The event has 5 brilliant speakers, a musical interlude, a tech quiz and much more! #OGN52 #OxfordGeeks
“Those who would trade sufficiently advanced technology for that indistinguishable from magic deserve neither.”
— Arthur C. Franklin
One of the coolest things about working at @CrossrefOrg is our mission to build software in the open and, where we can, contribute back. This post from my colleague @yaffol explains how we solved a missing @JsonSchema feature in #VueJS.
crossref.org/blog/forming-ne…
Respectful and insightful post from Gabe. I love the detailed engagement with the @CrossrefOrg Schema and what it means in the real world. Take a look.
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My preprint w/ @rachaellammey & @MartynRittman now on @metaarxiv presenting recent thinking around @CrossrefOrg's goal "*Towards a connected and dynamic scholarly record of updates, corrections, and retractions*". We seek both action and advice! doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/6z7s…
You can't spell "scholarly infrastructure" without "infrastructure". Job opening at @CrossrefOrg for a #SRE. Help us build #scholarly #infrastructure and APIs that empower the increasingly global, diverse #research ecosystem. #scholcomm #aws #metadata
crossref.org/jobs/2022-08-02…
We're looking for an R&D Developer with an exceptional combination of skills to join @CrossrefOrg. Can you combine #datascience & #metadata to deliver useful solutions for the scholarly community? crossref.org/jobs/2022-06-17…
#research #infrastructure #scholcomm #opendata #womenintech
I'm really excited* about this change in our metadata distribution policy. All references in @CrossrefOrg to be open from this summer. #OpenData
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* I actually am excited.
crossref.org/blog/amendments…
