Three lessons I learned from building Spark – a new (open access) discovery extension

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-09-10

Summary:

"After over five years of work around scholarly communication, I have to say that this field never ceases to impress me. If you look away for a minute, you’ll be welcomed back by all sorts of developments, including shifting cultures, new funding models, emerging practices and new software solutions. This summer, I thought I would start a project to experiment with the tech side of scholarly communication - particularly, I wanted to create a browser extension focusing on the pain points of researchers.

My summer adventure started in June, when I sat in front of my screen with no idea how browser extensions even worked. Today, I am proud to say that Spark, the fruit of my coding experiments, has been approved in the Chrome Web Store. In this article, I share three lessons I learned during this fun yet challenging experience...."

Link:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-lessons-i-learned-from-building-spark-new-open-access-andrea/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.tools oa.spark oa.discoverability oa.apis oa.code4oa

Date tagged:

09/10/2021, 09:38

Date published:

09/10/2021, 05:38