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  "description": "This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs for blogs, in addition to the DOIs for blog posts it registers since 2023.",
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  "textContent": "All science blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive provide a feed (in RSS, Atom or JSON Feed format) that includes not only metadata and full-text content for all archived blog posts, but also metadata about the blog itself. This includes required metadata such as the blog homepage and feed URL, but also an optional description, logo, license, language and science subject area, using the OpenAlex subfield, which maps to the Scopus All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) widely used to classify journals. Rogue Scholar also supports an optional International Serial Number (ISSN) as globally unique identifier for the blog – this blog has ISSN 2749-9952. While I encourage all Rogue Scholar blogs to obtain an ISSN, there are two important limitations of the ISSN:\n\n  * a new ISSN is assigned when the title of the publication changes, so it is not a persistent identifier,\n  * an ISSN is not an actionable identifier, i.e. does not resolve to the landing page of the blog or other periodical publication (similar to some other persistent identifiers such as ORCID).\n\n\n\nAn alternative approach is using DOIs as globally unique persistent identifier for the blog, and this aligns with using DOIs to register blog posts. The DOI registration agencies Crossref and DataCite support the resource type **Journal** and some other periodical publication formats (e.g. **Book Series** , **Proceedings Series**), but unfortunately not **Blog**. And they support the optional inclusion of one or more ISSNs.\n\nUntil Crossref and DataCite support the resource type **Blog** , Rogue Scholar will register blogs as resource type **Journal** , and include the optional ISSN. Front Matter is a Crossref member and can do this for all blogs participating in Rogue Scholar where it registers the DOIs (almost all of them). The Crossref resource type **Journal** unfortunately doesn't support many metadata (e.g. no subject classification), and **Journal** is mainly used as a container to describe a collection of **Journal Articles**. The DOI uses the same DOI prefix as the corresponding blog posts, and the blog slug (unique identifier used everywhere in Rogue Scholar) as the suffix.\n\nThe new blog DOI is displayed on the blog community page (e.g. here for this blog), and clicking on the DOI redirects users to the blog homepage (also shown, as is the ISSN).\n\nIt will take a few days until the DOIs for all blogs where Rogue Scholar manages DOI registration are registered.\n\n### Blog Volumes\n\nPeriodical publications typically have page numbers, issues and volumes. While page numbers and issues are typically not used for online publication formats such as blogs, volumes still make sense in a different context. One particular challenge with science blogs that the Rogue Scholar science blog archive tries to address is long-term archiving. While different approaches can address is problem, the basic idea is _Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe_ (LOCKSS). And **blog volumes** – all blog posts from a particular blog from a given year – can simplify long-term blog archiving in multiple places.\n\nThis week Rogue Scholar implemented blog volumes for all participating blogs:\n\nClicking on a year shows all blog posts from that blog published in that year:\n\nCurrently this is an automatically generated search in Rogue Scholar. The next step is generating a downloadable file with all content and metadata of the blog posts published in that year that can be archived in Rogue Scholar and elsewhere. I am working on generating these blog volumes in ePub format. These blog volumes will be registered with DOIs using the Crossref **Journal Volume** resource type (again, **Blog Volume** as resource type doesn't exist yet, and DataCite also has no **Journal Volume** ResourceTypeGeneral, **Collection** is the closest match).\n\nThese blog volumes can then be archived also in other repositories, and the ePub format makes reuse easier compare to PDF, as it is much easier to extract content from ePub. It has not escaped our notice that the specific archiving we are postulating immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for a blog when its authors want to migrate to a different blogging platform.\n\nPlease use Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments, in particular if you are interested in archiving blogs via blog volumes generated by Rogue Scholar.\n\nRogue 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.\n\n## References\n\n  1. Fenner, M. (2023, September 22). DOI registration workflow for a science blog. _Front Matter_. https://doi.org/10.53731/w6nzs-jta75\n  2. Fenner, M. (2023, November 9). Archiving Rogue Scholar blogs with the Internet Archive. _Front Matter_. https://doi.org/10.53731/g60vh-3ng48\n\n",
  "title": "Rogue Scholar starts to register blog DOIs",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-16T09:45:11.183Z"
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