Creating a Research Group Website
Building the DataHealth Lab website has been a mix of technical hurdles and rewarding customisation. Here’s a log of inspirations, resources, and pending ideas.
🔍 Inspirations
These websites served as valuable inspiration for design, structure, and content:
- Emmanuel Balogun – Overall academic profile layout
- Raymond Rumpf – Publications layout
- Rémi Thériault – Really nice, built with Hugo Blox, source of some of my customizations (e.g., Altmetrics)
- Julen Etxaniz – Clean design and custom features
- Urban Demographics by Rafael Pereira – Research output style
- Ipea Access Opportunities – Project structure
- Allan Lab – Publications and team sections
- YX Liu Group – Clean and highly functional lab site
- Gökçin Çınar – Customised, elegant research group layout
- Parra Lab – Started an academic group website with the same template, at around the same time as ours
- Deep Policy Lab – Beautiful research layout (using Quarto)
- Prof. Masiello, UW – Quarto inspiration
- John Paul Helveston – Quarto inspiration
- Tiago Zortea – Quarto inspiration
🛠️ Other Platforms Considered
🚧 Not Yet Implemented
Automated publication management tools I plan to explore:
- Hugo Academic CLI for Academic File Converter from BibTeX
- python-bibtexparser
🔁 Similar Pipelines
- erga – Takes a list of ORCID iDs, queries OpenAlex, removes duplicates and writes a single publications file that a website can render, with a GitHub Action to refresh it. It is quite similar to what we do here, but it arrived after our pipeline was ready.
💬 Forums and Sources
Helpful communities and repositories:
- Hugo Discourse Forum
- Wowchemy research community on Discord
- Hugo Blox Research Group Template
- Hugo Blox Builder
- Documentation - many links from the sources are broken, since they refer to the old Wowchemy documentation
