Discussion
Hi everyone! I joined this sandbox after reading this post on #mastodon: https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/115395462374539639
As a #researcher with a background on #commons and #opensource and #openscience pronent, I felt that after some time wanting to contribute to @bonfire@indieweb.social and not doing anything, this was the time to join the community and try to contribute!
I'll try to write about my experience here, both as a test and as a diary for future reference.
My first contact with #bonfire is that it ressembles a lot with #mastodon, so it feels like at home. My first task was to fill in my profile. It was a very straightforward and familiar process, but two subtlelties (not maybe not too subtle) got my attention: the possibility of linking my orcid and other profiles. That looks interesting!
A thread about federation
very briefly, as I am on my phone now.
I've found the following issues about federation:
Issue created here for #1: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
Now a thread covering my experiencing publishing content / creating posts
Now, about publishing content:
Again, publishing posts is quite straightforward. It has anything you'd expect:
Once I sent to "Post", I get a modal window (it was difficult for me to see, TBH, because it is displayed on the top of the window and not very prominently) confirming that the post has been published.
Once I like some #bonfire specific features here, such as changing how replies are sorted ❤️:
This is really cool, indeed! Following conversations on mastodon is difficult, and I feel/hope this can make this process easier.
I've noticed that likes are not shown in the post's page
⁂ Article
Linking ORCID
When I tried to link my orcid, I got an error. After reporting the issue in the matrix room, @mayel@bonfire.cafe and @ivan@bonfire.cafe almost immediately fixed the issue.
Once the issue was sorted, linking my orcid was as straightforward as with any other service using orcid. Not only that, but it populated my profile with very interesting data for #academics: a list of current and former institutions where I work/have worked, my most recent publication, the topics I write about and publication types.
I find this implementation to be very neat and useful for the use case of open science, so kudos to @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe for this great idea. I particularly love how the last publication is displayed, showing if it's open access, and links to the article and to the PDF version. Amazing! 🎉 (probably, I'd prefer to choose the publication I want to show there, but the last one is a good default criteria, so this is me being picky)
Linking other Fediverse accounts
Adding other profiles from the #fediverse was extremely easy: just adding the handle and they are shown along with their avatars in the profile.
I tried with adding #mastodon and #pixelfed accounts and both worked great.
My only concern is that I didn't know what to add on that section of the profile from reading the texts. It was not until I saw @mayel@bonfire.cafe 's profile that I understood that we were expected to add user handles from the fediverse. I'm not sure if any software using #ActivityPub will work here either, so I imagine that a better text, and potentially highlighting ActivityPub icon, would be appreciated. I took the liberty of proposing something in this quite clumpsy screenshot.
I just created an issue suggesting that here: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
My only issue with this is that all this data is pulled from openalex.org/ which is an amazing service, but it does make mistakes in assigning publications to authors. In my case, I have assigned as my own some publications written by someone with a similar, Portuguese name , and as a result, the fields and institutions are not correct.
I have reported this inaccuracies to openalex and I hope they fix them soon, but considering that:
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to get affiliations from orcid's API instead.
I suggested that in the #element / #matrix channel and n@ivan@bonfire.cafe immediately created an issue on their Github repo: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
Again, kudos to bonfire admins!
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