Alexandros Ioannidis from CERN describes the effects of "AI" on open repositories like Zenodo as a "DoS attack on human resources" and illustrates his talk with different illustrations of hell by Gustave Doré, William Blake, Botticelli and Delacroix. My new favourite talk of #OpenRepositories so far.
The OpenCitations 2025 Annual Report is now available on #Zenodo!
Discover the progress we have made over the past year, including:
📌the evolution of the OpenCitations visual identity
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📌developments in governance and organizational sustainability
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New on #zenodo
The Empty Centre of National Rejuvenation
This paper argues that contemporary China’s weakness lies not in a lack of power, but in the failure to convert power into trusted order.
This paper argues that the weakness of contemporary China lies not in the absence of power, but in the absence of defining power. The central question is not whether China can become stronger still, but whether it can define the world that should gather around it. The paper distinguishes material power from defining power and treats the latter as the decisive form of political power: the capacity to fix the meaning of order, establish the standards within which power becomes intelligible, and define a sustainable order within which others can locate themselves. On that basis, the paper develops three linked claims. First, contemporary China has risen within an order it did not create—one shaped by American primacy, the dollar, English, Westphalian sovereignty, and international law—yet has not shown that it can define an order capable of replacing it. Second, although the present party-state invokes civilisational memory and national rejuvenation, it remains structurally dependent on the Westphalian grammar of defensive sovereignty; and in diplomacy, even after attaining the scale of a great power, it still often conducts itself in a manner closer to small-state stratagem than to central statecraft, revealing a deficit not only of order-definition but of trust and political stature. Third, the paper argues that the final institutional form of a genuine post-Westphalian order is a World Federal Government: a layered federal structure in which the nation-state ceases to be the final unit of sovereignty, while inherited institutions and protected freedoms remain preserved within lower layers of order. The paper further argues that one of the clearest structural tensions of the present lies in the contrast between two scales of history: Qin unified Zhonghua in 221 BCE, and approximately 2,246 years have passed since that act, yet contemporary China still seeks centrality from within a Westphalian framework only 378 years old. In this sense, China is not post-Westphalian. It is a Westphalian state that invokes pre-Westphalian civilisational memory when it seeks expansion, and Westphalian sovereignty when it seeks protection. The paper concludes that the contemporary Chinese centre is empty not because it lacks power, but because it has neither defined a sustainable order nor displayed the trustworthiness proper to a true centre.
Ive given up on journal publishing due to the commodified AI partnerships that publishing houses have now entered into (no concern for author IP). Im now going to write more serious articles published on my blog, plus PDF format on #Zenodo. Ive uploaded a few past posts and theyve already been downloaded. This formalises the work with a citation doi, not just a blog url. It preserves the work in a significant knowledge database.
#academia #journals #publishing
**https://zenodo.org/communities/penworks-blog/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest**
#CCLS2026: Final #Poster Session of the Day.
Check out the digital versions of all posters in our #JCLS #Zenodo Community!
https://zenodo.org/communities/jcls/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
A large part of the economy deals in knowledge – and I’m not talking about education alone. Knowledge is a major ingredient, as well as a byproduct of, any credible attempt at societal change. A host of institutions – universities, governments, parliaments, think tanks and what have you – continuously produce knowledge.
Read the ad-free, no-tracking, complete blog post here: http://www.cottica.net/2026/04/08/frictionless-reports-harnessing-the-power-of-digital-and-open-for-knowledge-sharing/
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#digitallife #AltMetric #digital #DOI #ORCID #SCOPUS #WebofScience #Zenodo
Viele kleine Beiträge, große Wirkung – CompGen und der „Ehrentag“
Zum Geburtstag des Grundgesetzes am 23. Mai hat Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier zusammen mit der Deutschen Stiftung für Engagement und Ehrenamt (DSEE) den „Ehrentag“ initiiert. Der Fokus dieses deutschlandweiten Mitmachtags unter dem Motto „Für dich. Für uns. Für alle.“ liegt - im Gegensatz zum Internationalen Tag des Ehrenamtes am 05. Dezember - mehr auf gemeinschaftlichem Handeln, sichtbarem Engagement, gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt und niederschwelligem Mitmachen. […]https://www.compgen.de/2026/05/viele-kleine-beitraege-grosse-wirkung-compgen-und-der-ehrentag/
Just noticed this on Zenodo.org: "On 15 May 2026, between 12:25 and 13:11 GMT, Zenodo experienced an incident. The issue has been resolved. We apologize for the service disruption and any inconvenience caused. We will provide more details in the following days.”
I won’t complain if someone else made a full backup of our research data ;-)
¿Cómo hacer que tu repositorio sea citable?
📺 En este tutorial mostramos cómo vincular un repositorio de #GitHub con #Zenodo para obtener un DOI, un identificador que permite citar el software como cualquier otra publicación académica.
El video es un recorte de uno de los encuentros de nuestro curso Herramientas de Ciencia Abierta, donde trabajamos con herramientas concretas para la investigación abierta y reproducible.
Inscripciones abiertas en 👉 https://metadocencia.github.io/herramientas-de-ciencia-abierta-junio-2026/
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