Import publication list from BibTeX

[johnghill]

Unless I am mistaken users have to manually populate half a dozen fields for each new publication created in content/publication/. Most users will already have this data stored in other structured formats such as BibTeX. Would it be possible to...

1. Parse publications from a user supplied .bib file, perhaps also allowing users to specify which @bibtexkeys are promoted?
2. Grab such a list from the ORCID, Google Scholar or Mendeley handles given in config.toml ?

[gcushen]

I have already developed a Python script for importing publications from BibTeX, but didn't get around to documenting and publishing it on Github yet. I will try to crack on and finish it shortly - and provide updates in this thread. It's possible I might try to port it to Go in the future so that it's a stand alone binary like Hugo.

By 'promoted', I assume you are referring to flagging it as a selected publication?

Regarding point 2, I have also considered importing publications from Google Scholar - this could be a nice area for future development of the script.

It would be great to get feedback on these points from other users too.

[nipunarora]

This would be a great idea. It would be even better if the abstract can be imported as well, along with the bibtext... but that's not a must-have

[kepiej]

This would come in handy! At the moment I use bibtex2html to generate a html file containing all publications. (It also allows to filter on a given criteria such as the type of publication) I then load in this html file into my website using an iframe.

It would be great if this was supported out of the box! :-)

[wcornwell]

I'm not using the theme yet, but it looks great. The functionality in either (1) or (2) would be a pretty big draw for me to switch to this system.

[HughP]

@gcushen Any pointers to that python script yet? It seems to me that a script to convert from bibtex or zotero XML should be really important to a lot of users.

[HughP]

@gcushen have you seen this work yet? https://github.com/noinil/hugo-academic/commit/c4e3d4cacc0506d96534510ee6993a560fe6c9c3 in looking at the commit trail, It doesn't look like it got merged back in.

[mcoster]

That sure would save some time! Any news on the python script? Python familiarity is pretty widespread in academia these days, so I'm sure there would be many hugo-academic users who would find this type of script useful.

[mcoster]

I created a rough python script for this that suited my own needs. May or may not be useful to others. My first gist!

[bdarcus]

Is there no decent go-native bibtex parser you can use; say this one?

[apetros]

Hi, I made a python script for my own use. I hope you find it useful: https://github.com/apetros/parse_bib

Feel free to comment or modify the code. Cheers.

[andrewfowlie]

Hi all,

you may also be interested in this script for scraping articles (titles, authors, abstracts, urls etc) from the arXiv into your webpage,

https://gist.github.com/andrewfowlie/4e556851384c35f2031b080341f70d19

[msaharia]

Hi, what is the status of bibtex support in Hugo? Or atleast a script to convert?

[petzi53]

At the moment only APA and MLA citation styles are allowed. It would be nice if there is a possibility to include all 8000 styles via the Citation Style Language (CSL): For instance with Zotero, Mendeley or other free tools.

[petzi53]

I had to transfer 190 publications from my old WordPress website to the new (& still under construction) Academic website. This motivated me to write my first R package bib2academic to automate the conversion process. You can see the result here.

Maybe this is of help for other users of the Academic framework with a R/blogdown installation as well. You can install the package with: devtools::install_github("petzi53/bib2academic", build_vignettes = TRUE)

[HughP]

@petzi53 That install advice is great if one uses R to do their install work. do you have any suggestions if one uses pure git?

[petzi53]

@HughP The program is written in R. So you would need a R/blogdown installation. Sorry for not mentioned this limitation. I clarified my announcement in this sense.

[fmmattioni]

@petzi53 you are a hero!

[gcushen]

Closing as the Academic admin tool is now available at https://github.com/sourcethemes/academic-admin

[pat-s]

I just came across Bibbase and use it now for automated importing using Zotero. -> Example

[renanxcortes]

I had to transfer 190 publications from my old WordPress website to the new (& still under construction) Academic website. This motivated me to write my first R package bib2academic to automate the conversion process. You can see the result here.

Maybe this is of help for other users of the Academic framework with a R/blogdown installation as well. You can install the package with: devtools::install_github("petzi53/bib2academic", build_vignettes = TRUE)

I highlight again that you are a hero, @petzi53! BTW, what's the GitHub code of this website you're mentioning?

[petzi53]

Thanks for the nice feedback. I tried 3 times to upload the bib2academic packages to CRAN, but every time it was rejected because of some issue not complying with their rules. I decided it didn't pay further effort especially as I believe that @gcushen has provided his own version of conversion tool.

(I am not sure about @gcushen conversion routine and I do not know if it is a full replacement to my R package. I have changed to another theme several months ago: The academic theme had -at least for me - too many many breaking changes. I was more occupied to be on top of the latest release than in writing my blog entries.)

[gustavo-etal]

How can I fix the panel for pubs? 2020 list of pub 2019 list of pub?

best you are the man petzi53