Researcher Profiles
A portable format specification and SDK for researcher profiles: static, self-contained bundles of files describing one researcher, served from any HTTP host. The project has five parts.
- The Specification is the published profile standard. It covers the format, conformance levels, and privacy tiers.
- The Researcher Profile Python SDK provides models, validation, serving, vector search, and persona methods.
- scholarcore is the shared academic vocabulary (Person, Paper, Award, Opportunity). This repo publishes it too; it is documented separately.
- The Researcher Profile React UI Library is a React + TypeScript component library that renders the wire contract.
- The Researcher Profile Browser is the runnable web app that composes rp-ui-lib with a data layer.
A profile holds much more than a bibliography. It records each paper at several depths, from full text to a short abstract to a written summary, with a citation graph and vector embeddings built over all of it. Around the papers it carries grants and funding, expertise, career and training history, collaborators, and an explicit list of what a researcher does not work on. It can also include a persona document describing how a person thinks and writes, which a publication list cannot capture.
This project defines what a published researcher profile is and provides a
reference implementation for producing and consuming one.
The Researcher Profile Specification is the definition.
The Researcher Profile Python SDK (rp-sdk) is the reference
implementation. It provides models, a CLI, a validator, an HTTP server, and
vector search, all built against the specification.