Introducing Front Matter
Front Matter offers software development and hosting for the scholarly community, and is providing some of these services directly to users.
Blog
The Front Matter Blog covers all aspects of Open Science, and is open to guest authors.
Open Science
- The blog provides news, perspectives, feature articles and interviews around Open Science. Topics include research data, research software, preprints, open access, and open metrics.
Persistent identifiers
- All Front Matter posts are automatically registered with a Crossref DOI, including the ORCID IDs of all authors, the abstract, and the license in the metadata.
Software Development
Front Matter offers software development contract work with a focus on invenioRDM, research data management, persistent identifiers, and metadata.
Custom Metadata
- Help with adding support for domain-specific metadata, and mapping to other metadata standards.
Usage Stats and Citations
- Help with tracking and showing citations and usage stats for datasets and other scholarly content.
Schema.org
- Help with exposing metadata in landing pages via schema.org.
Cloud Hosting
Front Matter helps with setting up and maintaining cloud infrastructure for scholarly services.
Public Cloud Providers
- Help with running scholarly infrastructure with cloud providers Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Civo.
Kubernetes
- Help with setting up and maintaining a Kubernetes cluster.
Terraform
- Help with setting up and maintaining Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure.
