While writing some code to display my study reading list was fun, a better job is done by using some ready-built tools. Jabef (my bibliography manager) can export it’s database into a very nice HTML format (or infact any format) by making use of 3rd party filters.

The ability to export was something I’d not realised Jabref could do and only realised it indirectly after looking at http://www.bibsonomy.org/. The filters are a combination of standard HTML and the fields from the bibtex - sounds complex but actually straightforward. Having installed a filter via https://trac.cuda.damnserver.com/LSFEM_CUDA/browser/References/JabrefHtmlExportFilter and named it ‘enhancedHTML’, a daily cron job on my desktop machine instructs Jabref to automatically output a fresh reading list:

jabref -o /var/tmp/jabrefexport.html,enhancedHTML -n true m801.bib

That output is automatically copied up to this webserver for viewing. Job done, automatically. So now anyone can see what I’m reading in the course of study.

The new reading list is at https://jabref/jabrefexport.html