Joe Wass

Won’t be using the word “loaned” until Easter; I’m giving up synonyms for Lent

Parts of a harmonium laid out. Keyboard, springs, etc.

A new Harmonium Part 2: Deconstruction

I bought a century-old, mute harmonium. Can I get it to make a sound? What is all that black dust? And what would Queen Victoria say?

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Bending spring wire by hand

A new harmonium: Springs
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First proper blog post in a long while. The first step toward building a new instrument. Or fixing up an old one. Maybe even both...

The kissing gate is presumably to encourage cyclists to use the path and not cycle over the grass. It's clipped out of the tweet, but the inset shows the location of the kissing gate at the current entrance. The cycle path is further over.
See "Scheme Plan" PDF public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

An isolated trilobite head featuring large, compound eyes with numerous dome-shaped lenses

Sometimes when you stare into the abyss of geologic time, the abyss stares back.

The Ordovician trilobite Calyptaulax from the OMNH collections. Like modern insects, trilobites had compound eyes with many lenses. The lenses are made of calcite, which also makes up the exoskeleton. #TrilobiteTuesday

Things will get really interesting with @cometadata.bsky.social in the mix!

(Animated) visualisation of generation and flows 9 types of (meta) data (full text, abstract, license,affiliations, funding, references, PR status, deposits, retractions) across 9 'actors' in the system (manuscript. publishers, crossref, search engine (e.g. crossref), search engine(e.g. openalex), ORCID, CRIS, repository, (search engine, e.g. openaire)

For publication metadata nerds: viz of the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful. docs.google.com/presentation...

I realise that saying "Atkinson was the author of HyperCard" is probably like saying "Torvalds is the author of Subsurface." But HyperCard changed the way I think, and I still miss it. #HyperCard

Bee hives and chickens

Bees at the entrance to a bee hive.

Bees and chickens at @oxfordcityfarm.bsky.social . No better way to spend a sunny lunch break.

Graph of DOI length against frequency. Peaking at 18 and 25.

How long is a DOI? Does UTF-8 make a difference? Is it important?

This year #DataCite made their public data file available, which means we can compare #DataCite and @crossref.bsky.social 's DOIs.

(It's about 18 - 25 characters)

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#scholcomm #identifiers #doi

If you work with research outputs and metadata, DOIs are everywhere. For programmers working with scholarly metadata, there are a few things about DOIs to be aware of.

Here are some "Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs".

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#scholcomm #openinfrastructure

Joe (@joewass@fosstodon.org) 22 Posts, 139 Following, 87 Followers · Scholarly metadata and infrastructure, and folk tunes. That probably says more about me than it does about you, though maybe not much.

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