Papers

Papers is an reddit/HackerNews-like interface for sharing, discussing, collaborating on and improving academic papers.

Installation

pip install -e .

Running

python main.py

Developing

Stack

Papers currently uses the Waltz web framework (web.py w/ batteries), soon to be replaced with Flask. The database (which will be replaced with a more stable solution) is currently LazyDB, a wrapper over the shelve flatfile db.

Todo

See Issues.

• Map over all papers and add a 'submission' time field
• Add databasing (other than LazyDB)
• Implement search over papers (whoosh?)
• PDF semantic analyzer (decompose into search terms)
• Network with some schools re: partnerships
• Additional details at https://michaelkarpeles.com/rfcs/1-epic