Found a lovely PCB in this old Yamaha Portasound PC-100 from early 1980s. Meticulous labels.

I'm really excited* about this change in our metadata distribution policy. All references in Crossref (inactive Jan 2025) to be open from this summer. #OpenData ____ * I actually am excited. crossref.org/blog/amendment…

Happy May from Oxford!

We're looking for an R&D Developer with an exceptional combination of skills to join Crossref (inactive Jan 2025). Can you combine #datascience & #metadata to deliver useful solutions for the scholarly community? crossref.org/jobs/2022-06-1… #research #infrastructure #scholcomm #opendata #womenintech

You can't spell "scholarly infrastructure" without "infrastructure". Job opening at Crossref (inactive Jan 2025) for a #SRE. Help us build #scholarly #infrastructure and APIs that empower the increasingly global, diverse #research ecosystem. #scholcomm #aws #metadata crossref.org/jobs/2022-08-0…

My preprint w/ @rachaellammey & @MartynRittman now on MetaArXiv Bot presenting recent thinking around Crossref (inactive Jan 2025)'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.i…

Respectful and insightful post from Gabe. I love the detailed engagement with the Crossref (inactive Jan 2025) Schema and what it means in the real world. Take a look.

One of the coolest things about working at Crossref (inactive Jan 2025) is our mission to build software in the open and, where we can, contribute back. This post from my colleague Patrick Vale explains how we solved a missing @JsonSchema feature in #VueJS. crossref.org/blog/forming-n…

“Those who would trade sufficiently advanced technology for that indistinguishable from magic deserve neither.” — Arthur C. Franklin

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

A profoundly wonderful Oxford Geek Night after such a long hiatus. Quoth Ben Foxall ➡️ @benfoxall.bsky.social 👋 “These are the legs”. Oxford Geeks #ogn52

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.

This kills any remaining good will.

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?

Happy #internationalbagpipeday!

Today we announce an update to our flexible data resilience strategy at Crossref (inactive Jan 2025). Plus a bit of history. crossref.org/blog/renewed-p… #scholcomm #openinfra #metadata #scholarlypublishing

📢 Taking persistence to a new level: Floppy disks and their part in the scholarly record. bit.ly/3G47Bs3 #PersistenceIsKey #RenewedPersistence #floppydisks

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.

First blog post (and tweet) in a while! How we record technical decisions at Crossref. crossref.org/blog/mending-c…

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