paperwiki

Paperwiki is a platform to foster open discussions about academic papers.

Architecture: Uses google scholar to search for articles (use scholar.py) "Create Page" will generate a DB for an article that would be saved into mongodb. A page will have the following format. Title. Authors & Affiliations. Year. Journal. Page. Etc.

Abstract

Paperwiki section [People can enter information about the article]

Features

• search google scholar
• create or see wiki pages on each paper
• each wiki page will also host a reddit-like forum for discussions
• main page will have a feed for recent wiki updates
• users who contribute to the wiki will be notified when changed
• users can star (bookmark) papers to their paperwiki library.
• network map of literature.
• retraction watch buttons and such.

To run:

1. install dependencies
2. update username and password in config.py file
3. run

python app.py

in browser navigate to localhost:5000

To deploy

1. https://medium.com/the-andela-way/deploying-a-python-flask-app-to-heroku-41250bda27d0
2. Set environ variable for port. Config Vars: ON_HEROKU : True

Basically,

1. Navigate to paperwiki_deploy
2. cd paperwiki
3. git pull
4. Push to heroku

$ git add .
$ git commit -am "make it better"
$ git push heroku master

Resources

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
https://github.com/ckreibich/scholar.py
https://flaskbb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html
https://github.com/fabiobatalha/crossrefapi