My 2023 year in review

Cite as: Martin Paul Eve, "My 2023 year in review", https://eve.gd, December 11, 2023, https://doi.org/10.59348/8584f-zts44.

2023 continued to pose the all-important question: just how many health disasters can I endure? This year, I started haemodialysis as my kidneys entered the extremely worryingly named “end-stage renal failure”. This turns out to be a very long-term prospect, as I can’t have a transplant owing both to BK viremia (which caused the kidney damage in the first place) and a conflict with the immunosuppression that treats my rheumatoid arthritis. Without the latter under control, life is, quite seriously, unbearable.

But enough of that grimness. I also got quite a lot done this year!

Crossref

Built the Labs API and released its source code
Conducted research into, and wrote a peer-reviewed article about, the digital preservation status of 7m articles
Built a deposit proxy system that allows for the modelling and retrieval of new metadata
Began work on Project Op Cit; a digital preservation system
Built a set of tools – CLAWS – for generic AWS operations
Built a wrapper for distributed computation using Coiled and Dask
Built an observability library called Longsight
Integrated the Retraction Watch database in the Labs API
Rebuilt/rewrote the Retraction Watch database system
Built a Large Language Model affiliation parser
Built a JSON-L packer for the Crossref annual data dump
Built (most of) a SQLite packer for the Crossref annual data dump
Gave 8 plenary/keynote talks