Hello. We're an academic department with about 25 permanent professor/researcher members, and 80 members in all, including visitors, postdocs, students and technicians. We currently have a custom-built website:
http://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/
but the person who's built it has left, and we'd like to re-implement most or all of its features using a public and open system. OpenScholar looks really good, but before jumping in we have a few questions.
Our current site has several dynamic aspects, notably databases for people, events, and publications. We've noticed that individual sites built with OpenScholar seem to have dynamically generated publication lists (from databases, presumably), but the department websites (such as the Linguistics and Astronomy departments at Harvard) seem to have static publication lists.
Is there a way to generate a publications database for a department website, and have each member's publications dynamically and automatically displayed on his or her webpage? If so, what are the different ways of populating this database? Are there any examples of such a department site?
Thanks a lot!
Mark Wexler
Comments
You can import publications
You can import publications from files in different formats (bibtex, endonte etc).
Please make sure you try the new version of OS https://github.com/openscholar/openscholar where we have much better support for department sites and also subsites (individual / project) for each department. Note that our current thinking is that publications are owned by subsites (personal sites) and department site make use of that information. But technically you can go the other way around , having publications belong to the department site and shared by subsites.
Thanks!