Scholarly metadata from R

Metadata! Metadata is very cool. It’s super hot right now - everybody is talking about it. Okay, maybe not everyone, but it’s an important part of archiving scholarly work. We are working on a repo on GitHub rmetadata to be a one stop shop for querying metadata from around the web. Various repos on GitHub we have started - rpmc, rdatacite, rdryad, rpensoft, rhindawi - will at least in part be folded into rmetadata....

September 17, 2012 · 6 min · Scott Chamberlain