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🆕 blog! “How to get a DOI for your blog posts”
Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you might experience if you go down this path.
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Background
A few years ago, I documented how to to get an International Standard…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-blog-posts/
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@Edent This is a great post, and I love Rogue Scholar! Martin Fenner is a great guy.
This is tangential but related to metadata, and I am very sorry because I cannot check your site's source to see whether you have already done this as I am just on my phone lying in a hospital bed on oxygen, but I had great trouble getting Zotero to recognise the item type as a 'blog post'.
I eventually found this via the poorly documented zotero:itemType property. https://eve.gd/2026/06/23/making-blog-posts-harvestable-by-zotero-and-preserving-case-in-citation-fields/
As I say, I am very sorry if you already know this, and have discovered and implemented it. But while you are working on metadata-type things, I could not help but point this out, although I would rather have been able to check your site first before I tried to teach Grandmother to suck eggs, or something!
@mpe oooh, that is interesting, thanks.
Hope the oxygen is helping.
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@Edent This is a great post, and I love Rogue Scholar! Martin Fenner is a great guy.
This is tangential but related to metadata, and I am very sorry because I cannot check your site's source to see whether you have already done this as I am just on my phone lying in a hospital bed on oxygen, but I had great trouble getting Zotero to recognise the item type as a 'blog post'.
I eventually found this via the poorly documented zotero:itemType property. https://eve.gd/2026/06/23/making-blog-posts-harvestable-by-zotero-and-preserving-case-in-citation-fields/
As I say, I am very sorry if you already know this, and have discovered and implemented it. But while you are working on metadata-type things, I could not help but point this out, although I would rather have been able to check your site first before I tried to teach Grandmother to suck eggs, or something!
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