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aliases:
- /2014/02/openproceedings
categories:
- python
- openscience
date: 2014-02-13 23:30
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slug: openproceedings-github-figshare-pelican-conference-proceedings
title: openproceedings - Github/FigShare based publishing platform for conference
  proceedings

---

Github provides a great interface for gathering, peer reviewing and accepting papers for conference proceedings, the second step is to publish them on a website either in HTML or PDF form or both.
The Scipy conference is at the forefront on this and did great work in peer reviewing on Github, see: <https://github.com/scipy-conference/scipy_proceedings/pull/61>.

I wanted to develop a system to make it easier to continously publish updated versions of the papers and also leverage FigShare to provide a long term repository, a sharing interface and a [DOI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier).

I based it on the blog engine [`Pelican`](http://getpelican.com), developed a plugin [`figshare_pdf`](http://github.com/openproceedings/pelican_figshare_pdf) to upload a PDF of an article via API and configured [Travis-ci](http://travis-ci.org) as building platform.

See more details on the project page on Github:
<https://github.com/openproceedings/openproceedings-buildbot>