MPIA Arxiv Display

I spent a significant amount of time to update the way we show ArXiv papers at the institute. I decided to completely outsource the process to GitHub using the GitHub Actions.

Last updated on 2022-04-07 · 1min read · data-driven, astrophysical parameters

arxiv_display is a hack born during a science coffee at MPIA between Iskren Georgiev (@iskreng-y-g) and Morgan Fouesneau (@mfouesneau). This repository generates the screen content for the corridors of the institute. It is a sort of Arxiver for institutes or groups.

This repository "only" hosts a website that supports the institute's displays.

The main goal is to provide summaries of daily papers authored or co-authored by MPIA members. Only for those, the summary contains the title, authors, abstract, and figures (with captions).

This evolution heavily relies on arXiv on deck 2, a package that searches for new articles on ArXiv and renders their summary as Markdown documents. It does not compile the original LaTeX documents and only extracts the relevant information into Markdown files.