This page showcases a collection of web development tools, plugins, and themes created to support the design and maintenance of content-rich academic websites. Built primarily around the Pelican static site generator, these utilities are tailored for researchers and developers dealing with structured data, and who value automation and maintainability of the site content.

What’s Included

Pelican Plugins for Structured Content
Tools for generating publication lists, personnel directories, file repositories, sponsor listings, and more, all from structured YAML or BibTeX data.
General Content Enhancements
Plugins for generating tables of contents, listing recent articles, and tracking file modification times.
Themes for Academic Sites
Custom Bootstrap-based themes (bootcase and bootcase5) designed for academic communities and personal research websites.

These tools are actively used in projects like the DCASE Community website and are freely available for integration into your own Pelican-based sites.

Pelican

Pelican is a static site generator written in Python that enables the creation of easily maintainable websites. It converts content written in Markdown into static HTML pages. The system supports themes, plugins, and integrates with tools like Jinja2 for templating. Pelican is particularly well-suited for machine learning and academic websites, as many researchers are already familiar with the Python language and can easily develop custom plugins. . I have developed many plugins and themes over the years for various academic community websites. They can be seen in action in the DCASE Community website, in addition to my personal website. Feel free to use them in your own website projects.

Structured Content Creation Plugins

Publication lists

pelican-btex

A simple Pelican plugin to produce publication lists from BibTex files. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Personnel Listings

pelican-bpersonnel

A simple Pelican plugin to produce personnel listings from yaml data structures. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

File Repository Listings and Items

pelican-brepository

A simple Pelican plugin to produce file listings and single items from yaml data structures. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Sponsor Listings

pelican-bsponsors

A simple Pelican plugin to produce sponsor listings from yaml data structures. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Dynamic Tables with Data Visualization

pelican-datatable

A simple Pelican plugin to produce table of content for content pages. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Glossary

pelican-bglossary

A simple Pelican plugin to produce table of content for content pages. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Important Dates

pelican-bdates

A lightweight Pelican plugin for generating important date listings from YAML data structures. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

General Content Plugins

Table of Content

pelican-btoc

A simple Pelican plugin to produce table of content for content pages. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Most Recent Articles

pelican-bnews

A simple Pelican plugin for generating a list of the most recent articles on a content page. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Fetch File Modification Time

pelican-modified

A simple Pelican plugin to produce table of content for content pages. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Fetch File Content

pelican-include

A simple Pelican plugin to produce table of content for content pages. Designed for use with Markdown content and compatible with Bootstrap 3 and 5-based templates.

Git repository

Themes

BS3 Theme for Academic Sites

bootcase

Bootstrap v3 based theme designed for academic community sites and academic personal sites. Theme is used for example in DCASE and BioDCASE adacemic community websites

Git repository

B5 Theme for Academic Sites

bootcase5

Bootstrap v5 based theme designed for academic community sites and academic personal sites.

Git Repository

General

Dynamic HTML tables with data visualization

js-datatable

An open-source jQuery plugin for creating dynamic HTML tables with built-in data visualization capabilities. This plugin was originally developed to support academic data visualization, and specifically for presenting results from the DCASE2016 evaluation campaign. The plugin was designed to integrate seamlessly with the Pelican static site generator. The project later evolved into js-datatable, a standalone jQuery plugin that encapsulates the core functionality. For Pelican integration, refer to the companion project: pelican-datatable.

Git repository Documentation

Header images

everyday-patterns

Everyday Patterns is a small collection of images with various patterns found from our everyday environments licensed under CC. Images have been cropped from various personal photographs taken by me. Images are formatted to be used as wide header images in web-pages (size approximately 1900 px x 400 px).

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