BibAuthorID: a new hope
- Backend:
- Database abstraction layer completely refactored and optimized
- Changes in tables structures to accomodate new functionalities
- Disambiguation algorithm rewritten, corrected and optimized
- Off-memory computation!
- No ad-hoc scheduling needed anymore
- Improved parallelism
- Bottlenecks moved to CPython
- Many, many bug fixes
- Improvement in names comparison functions and names handling
- Improvements in signature comparisons
- Introduced Person search engine
- Database abstraction layer completely refactored and optimized
- Frontend:
- New author profile pages
- Better layout, more info, better behaviour, mathjax support
- New profile management pages
- ArXiv and ORCID interaction
- External and internal ID management
- Profile merging interface
- New json based ticketing system
- Much better feedback and usability when claiming papers
- Navigation menu
- Help pages
- Initiated refactoring of templating engine to better MVC model
Co-Authored-by: Nedko Stefanov Nedkov <nedko.stefanov.nedkov@cern.ch> Co-Authored-by: Minn Soe <minn.soe@cern.ch> Co-Authored-by: Thomas Karampelas <thomas.karampelas@cern.ch> Co-Authored-by: Nikolaos Kalodimas <nikolaos.kalodimas@cern.ch> Co-Authored-by: Alessio Deiana <alessio.deiana@cern.ch> Co-Authored-by: Samuele Kaplun <samuele.kaplun@cern.ch>
- New author profile pages