/scihive-backend

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SciHive

Read, collaborate and talk about scientific papers.

Getting started

  1. Install Postgres
  2. Install pandoc to support references extraction from here: https://pandoc.org/installing.html
  3. Install pdftotext to support acronyms extraction: sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
  4. Create your Python 3.7 virtual env
  5. Create .env file based on the .env_example and fill out the values
  6. Run flask fetch-papers to grab some papers (you can stop the function after fetching ~200 papers)
  7. Run flask run
  8. See SciHive.postman_collection.json for some examples of queries

Production

  • Repeat steps 2-5
  • Run sh restart_server.sh

###Changelog

  • May 31, 2019 - Acronym extraction and enrichment (from other papers)