Python Programming Project: BibTeX Parser

University of Amsterdam, Nov/Dec 2015
Research programming project proposal for Master of Logic

Supervisor: Christian Schaffner (ILLC / email)
ECTS: 3

Motivating Problem

Maintaining large bibtex files manually is time-consuming and almost impossible to do in a consistent way. Morever, this work is replicated over and over again by individual researchers or research groups.

Objectives

Creating the perfect bibtex file (for articles in a certain research domain, such as quantum cryptography)

Approach

There already exists an open-source Python Bibtex Parser. We will aim at implementing the following extensions of this parser:

create alphastyle citation keys
look up article information from crossref, dblp, arXiv
provide various bibtex file formats

Further work will create a website where articles can be looked up on the fly.

Number of students

1 is preferred

Prerequisites

some previous programming experience in Python (just having followed Basic Probability, Computing and Statistics is sufficent).

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