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Vaults and locks that fence them from the public eye and use
17 September 2026
Crossref Member Practices feedback: without digital preservation, there is no digital persistence
9 September 2026
Not now, ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment!
5 September 2026
Repository metadata contain ontological ambiguities that fold into flat hierarchies
28 August 2026
Investigating ATProto here and for Knowledge Commons
10 July 2026
FAIR and Square: making a static site support FAIR signposting
27 June 2026
Making blog posts harvestable by Zotero and preserving case in citation fields
23 June 2026
Things I have made (KC IDMS in place, Lower Decks conference, and quote in ResearchProfessional)
21 May 2026
The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan)
19 April 2026
Too much publishing...
23 March 2026
Swimming upstream
21 February 2025
Getting external access to BuddyPress's notifications (for Knowledge Commons)
18 February 2025
Getting Knowledge Commons Works running locally
8 January 2025
Evaluating Document Similarity Detection Approaches for Content Drift Detection
21 December 2024
Are metadata facts?
24 September 2024
Rusting Away (or: packing the entire Crossref database into a SQLite file)
9 January 2024
Blocking My Crawl
9 November 2023
Citations and addressability
21 September 2023
Retract this!
12 September 2023
Rules vs. Principles in POSI
28 July 2023
What’s the point of having open scholarly infrastructures and how do we test their resilience?
26 July 2023
The latest Ithaka S+R draft report is hugely regressive
20 July 2023
Some of my upcoming projects at Crossref
10 December 2022
Moving On: My Infrastructural Turn
26 August 2022
What is 'the scholarly record'?
26 July 2022
What is the relationship between legal form, governance, and ethics?
6 December 2021
On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access
21 October 2020
The Emergence of Threat Infrastructures: Plan S and Behavioral Change
3 July 2020
On participatory design in library architecture
4 May 2020
Notes on Susan Leigh Star’s ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’
19 April 2020
Zotero and auto-downloading open access books
10 April 2020
I4OC open citations implementation in Janeway
14 March 2020
Thinking through citation resolution and proposals for consumer-driven, DOI-like metadata repositories
30 July 2019
Academic author rights of presentation on mutable digital platforms
24 July 2019
Old Traditions and New Technologies
7 June 2019
The single largest challenge for information publishing in the digital age
11 November 2016
What do we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms 'sustainable'?
23 May 2016
Embargoing metadata?
27 April 2016
The critique of utopia
26 February 2016
A world reimagined without the university
26 February 2016
These games we play (in ScholComms)
8 January 2016
The politics of style: on styleguides in scholarly communications
16 July 2015
A research tool I want (but probably won't get): cross-reference/intersect bibliographies of books and articles
3 June 2014
Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion
22 February 2014
Publication: 'The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish', in Zombies in the Academy (Bristol: Intellect, 2013)
2 June 2013
CrossRef, DOIs and Preparing for Future Assignment
26 March 2013
Alluvium technical news: DOI numbers, CLOCKSS and MLA Bibliography
13 December 2012
On ORCID, accreditation structures and altmetrics
14 November 2012
On Blog Inequality in Scholarly Research
7 August 2012
Metadata handling for Open Access Journal PDFs
6 June 2012
More thoughts on metrics, link-rot, canonical URLs
4 February 2012
DOIs: What you need to know
3 February 2012
Project idea/request for comment: OpenDOI
2 February 2012
Guest post on Google Scholar Citations
18 November 2011
Implementing COinS
27 March 2010