awesome-bib-builder

Overview

awesome-bib-builder: Scripts for transforming BibTeX files into markdown collections.

• Source Code: https://github.com/hayesall/awesome_bib_builder

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Motivation

There’s a trend on GitHub where people build “awesome” lists of research papers, like awesome-spn or awesome-gradient-boosting-papers.

Snapshots from two awesome lists. (Left) sum-product network papers written in 2019. (Right) Gradient-boosting papers published in 2021.

Maintaining lists like these will get extremely tedious over time though. Ordering papers by year and topic means maintaining the same data in two locations.

This is exactly the problem I ran into when putting together notes on Bayesian Network papers I read: http://bayes.hayesall.com

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Approach

Academics tend to like bibtex citations, so I thought it would make sense to turn a folder of .bib files into a structured markdown representation.

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