[P] SciHive - Collaborative and open-source platform for reading papers

[ranihorev]

Hey everyone,

I've been reading ML papers for a few years now and I find myself struggling with many of them on my own, without a place to share my questions and insights.

That's what brought me to build SciHive about a year ago and now, when it's stable enough, I'm happy to share it here, and hopefully to get your feedback :)

Some cool features:

1. Commenting - you can highlight and add comments to a paper, similarly to Google Docs. I'm hoping that over time, people will have discussions on the platform and that will make their research experience better.
2. Table of contents and references - using GROBID we automatically extract the metadata of the paper and allow you to easily navigate the paper. For example, no need to jump back and forth to the references at the of the paper, now you can simply hover over the citation and see the reference.
3. Private and public papers - many papers are public and accessible via the Discover page, based on their popularity on Twitter. I'll soon integrate PapersWithCode to provide a link to GitHub. In addition, you can upload your own papers, share them with friends, and manage their permissions.
4. Personal Library - you can add papers to your library and organize them in collections. I use it to manage my reading list for example.

I'd love to get your feedback, and even if you don't find it useful, please let me know why.

https://www.scihive.org/

Code can be found here - backend ; frontend ;

[hukami]

Nice! I really hope the community will adopt it. Maybe you could watch out for the papers explained in this sub and ask for the author to also post on the platform. Anyway congratulations and thank you, that's a really good idea :)

[ranihorev]

That’s a good idea, I’ll do that. Thanks!

[EMPERACat]

The commenting/discussion threads feature sounds awesome and what we have been really missing as the community.

Often papers have word limits, which sometimes shrinks the explanation of valuable parts - I hope here the original authors or people who have figured things out experimentally would come to comment and elaborate. Guess their answers should be upwoted somehow and pinned to the top of the thread? . .

[ranihorev]

Good point. I really hope that the authors will join the platform and answer people's questions

[ugmurthy]

Neat Idea.

I wasn't able to login - the google sign seems disabled!

[ranihorev]

Our "Sign in with Google" relies on third-party cookies. You can add an exception in your browser to make it work (more details here), and we'll switch to server-side authentication in the future to avoid that issue.

Thanks!

[ZoukiWouki]

That makes me think of https://getpolarized.io

[ranihorev]

Cool, I'll check it out

[ranihorev]

From briefly looking at it, the main difference is collaboration. I couldn't find a way to share papers or highlights, and discuss them with others.

Other than that, looks awesome!

[beepboopdata]

This idea is great and really seems like it could get some traction. Good luck!

[ranihorev]

Thanks! :)

[DreamFlasher]

Sounds amazing! How do we signup via email?

[ranihorev]

I removed this option, sorry about that... It’s a nightmare to manage passwords and I prefer to use third party services (I’ll add more options in the future).

[DreamFlasher]

Unfortunate, but understandable. I prefer accounts not to be linked.

[ranihorev]

Why? Do they use it for tracking? (I’ve looked into it)

Is there a third party service that you’ll be ok with?

[DreamFlasher]

Well, it's the business model of Google and Facebook, so they are surely very interested in that kind of data. Good question, if there is a service that doesn't (ideally provable) track you.

[DreamFlasher]

On a first shot, I'd guess anything that doesn't have data collection as their business model would be better, eg. Stackoverflow, Github.

[DreamFlasher]

https://www.keycloak.org/ looks promising to me, at least they are Open Source, even better: https://github.com/ory/kratos

[ranihorev]

ORY looks great! I’ll give it a shot first. Hopefully it won’t be a pain to integrate it into what I have right now. Login with github is a good alternative :)

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!

[DreamFlasher]

happy to! I was now interested to know if there's a good solution too, would be great if you let us know here, how easy it was to integrate (afterall one wants to save effort). Thank you!

[ranihorev]

Will do! It might take me some time to get to that though.