You may consider hosting your social data out of the USA.
Here is a search tool of Mastodon instances that filters on country:
https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list 
I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y
"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."
PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.
The new data.blog is now live! The first visual/UX/logo/color refresh since the original site was built 10 years ago, the refreshed blog has realigned for enhance navigation and discoverability, while also sporting a spiffy new look and feel. Enjoy!
https://data.blog/2025/03/14/new-data-blog-is-here-designed-for-discovery/ #design #redesigns #realign #data #discoverability #usability
Easier community discovery - PieFed knows all the communities already
Under `Settings > Public Profile > Privacy and reach` there are a few opt-in settings that determine whether your account is discoverable (first option under "Reach") and whether your posts show up in search results (first option under "Search").
Mastodon search is pretty weak most of the time, and I'm wondering if that's because most people have search indexing.
Do you have yours turned on?
Please #boost for reach!
On 20th February at 17:00 UTC, @OpenAlex and #DOAJ will give a joint webinar on our collaboration and how we help quality #openaccess journals achieve greater visibility and impact.
Find out more about the #OpenAlex webinar series:
https://help.openalex.org/hc/en-us/articles/24428492324631-Webinars
Register for the event here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QJTQwt1bQJmict1YftlpGA#/registration
Update. Also see:
* NIH Plan to Increase Findability and Transparency of Research Results Through the Use of Metadata and Persistent Identifiers
https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Metadata_PIDs.12.16.2024_PDF.pdf
* NIH Issues New Policy to Speed Access to Agency-Funded Research Results
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-issues-new-policy-speed-access-agency-funded-research-results
* Introducing the New NIH Public Access Policy
https://osp.od.nih.gov/introducing-the-new-nih-public-access-policy/
h/t #GaryPrice
is there any projects focused on discoverability in the fediverse?
not entirely sure how to search for this 
How to find conversations here?
- choose a keyword that stands for an area of interest - for example "joy" or "emissions" or "whiteness"
- look for it from the top box or click: #joy #emissions #whiteness
… else normal search was nearly worthless …
pkg search --regex markdown | grep …
rubygem-tty-markdown
It would be really funny if the above package would turn out to be only a library|module, lacking a command to run on the command line in the terminal
^UPDATE: It was just as funny as mentioned
:sigh: Goes to show you package name, comment, & sometimes description too, matter when searching for suitable packages. #discoverability
Something I would love to see on the #fediverse: That people could curate lists of hashtags and people to #follow that you could browse and follow people through without having to switch instance, copy addresses and put that in your search bar back at your own instance. Surfing the fediverse is not really like surfing, it's more like going to catch fish on the sea, but the kind of fish you need to bring home before you can eat them (yeah super bad metaphor, you get the point) #discoverability
Several rounds of updates later over the past few days (also in part thanks to some of the feedback received — thank you!), a new version of the thi.ng browser tool is up:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/
New features include:
- additional per-project/example links to API docs, live demos, source code
- for each tag only the top 10 related tags are shown now to avoid (well, minimize) cognitive overload
- dozens of tags have been pruned/merged/replaced (across dozens of package.json files, an ongoing process for the near future...)
- glossary/reference link additions
- CSS updates
Since this entire tool is also entirely made with https://thi.ng/umbrella packages, some of these features (e.g. the related tag ranking/sorting) has been implemented & simplified via new additions to the https://thi.ng/transducers package (e.g. the new `sortedFrequencies()` reducer function, just released). Please see the main repo readme (section: "Latest updates") for more...
As the scope of #cataloging, as well as the depth and complexity of cataloging #standards evolve and grow, Ex Libris is working with the community to build solutions that ensure #content #quality, at scale.
They are undertaking initiatives to harness advanced technologies to assist catalogers & #libraries in their quest for better #data and #discoverability in #Alma, & finally in the #Primo #discovery tool.
This past week I've been doing _a lot_ of work on a new "thi.ng browser" tool (and the associated metadata) to help people exploring the thi.ng universe via a tree-based user interface of tags/keywords (current selection is 750 tags with only ~375 of 500+ projects in total).
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/
Each tag shown is a potential entry route. By unfolding nested levels of the tag tree, each branch is creating increasingly narrower tag intersections to filter the list of available packages & examples. At each level, a list of related tags will be shown. Some tags/acronyms have associated glossary entries for further reading (incl. on Wikipedia). Nested tags can be promoted as new main search term (via "open as root"), which might increase the result set again. You can use the fuzzy search input to pre-filter the initial list of tags you're interested in... or use the list of initials as a kinda book index.
All this is work in progress! There're no easy or linear ways to consolidate and update the metadata of all these projects, manually assign screenshots/thumbnails, deduplicate language/tags etc. I've already been doing dozens of passes semi-automating keyword updates, but I'm guessing I'm only 1/3rd done... But, I'm already _very_ happy about how this is turning out and hope it will be useful to others as well! For any ideas/feedback[1], please reply here or use the GH discussions...
Eventually, I want to include additional levels & information both on the topic/tagging side (e.g. start with a smaller number of use case "macro"-tags) and on the project end (i.e. to unfold projects and their resources/assets)..
New or existing users might also find the source code of this tool interesting. No docs/comments added yet, but hoping to address these over the next week!
[1] ...as always, highly appreciated!
Diese Session verspricht spannend zu werden, nicht zuletzt, weil meine Kollegin Sara El-Gebali mittels #Kibana #Metadaten in den Fokus setzen wird. Und ARDC als Leuchtturm-Beispiel ist natürlich immer wert einzuschalten. Also einfach registrieren und boosten, wenn Ihr Metadaten liebt.
Hear about real-world examples of DataCite #DOI #metadata at work, including visualizations & dashboards that illustrate its impact, advancing #DataManagement & enhancing organizational insights.
Register for this online event now:
https://datacite.org/event/metadata-in-focus-leveraging-datacite-metadata-for-enhanced-impact/
@yalahowy
@m
@ardc_au #DataCite2024 #CommunityMeeting #Visualization #OpenInfrastructure #discoverability #connectivity #interoperability #WeLoveMetadata #CommunityDriven
"Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites"
https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/
PS: When will #AcademicPublishers start to do this? For them, it would be all gain, no loss, whether or not their works were #OpenAccess.
I might not follow a #publisher, since too many of its works would fall outside my areas of interest. But I would definitely follow #journals and #book series. I'd also follow #tags.
Did you miss the University of Alberta Library #Editorial Lunch and Learn featuring multilingual publishing with #OpenJournalSytems?
Start with this thread!
Why #MultilingualPublishing? When English is viewed as the standard for #ScholarlyPublishing, a lot of research is missed or minimalized.
Language-inclusivity improves #metadata, #indexing & #discoverability.
Consider using #OJS settings as part of an alternative publishing model 
Most of these tests to ensure someone is a #millennial seem like things that anyone can figure out, but I don't see any possible way for kids these days to understand the #iPod scroll wheel #interface without seeing someone else use it first.
Hey I've just realised there's a thing I do that others might benefit from.
If I see a post from someone on a server that sounds cool - I fire up a web browser and go to [cool.server]/public/local to see if there are other cool people on that server that I might want to follow.
