The GIM Website is available via gim.rwth-aachen.de. The website is based on markdown files and YAML files in a git repository.
The git repository can be found on the GitLab CE instance of RWTH Aachen University: https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/gim/gim.pages.git-ce.rwth-aachen.de. Please follow the instructions and hints in the README file of the repository.
The repository has two relevant branches. One is named main and the other is named release. The state in the release branch is the current live state of the website. The branch main hosts the work-in-progress state of the website. If you contribute to the website, you always work on the main branch or a seperate branch that you later merge into the main branch. As soon as you are finished with editing the website, you have to create a merge request to merge it into the release branch and assign the responsible website administrator to review and process your merge request.
The website presents the institute as well as its research and teaching. The research and teaching parts are less frequently updated. They will only need updates if lectures change or if projects start or end. The frequently updated parts are the news and team pages of the institute section.
As soon as you start working at the GIM, you should add yourself to the team page on the website by adding your personal page. Add a new file named firstname-lastname.md in the folder team. The basic structure of this file has to be as follows:
---
title: YOUR FULL NAME
person: firstname-lastname
show_publications: BOOLEAN (true or false)
---
## Research Interests
- YOUR
- RESEARCH
- INTERESTS
## Professional experience
| | |
| --- | --- |
| since May 2024 | Ph.D. researcher, Geophysical Imaging and Monitoring at RWTH Aachen University |
| Apr. 2022 -- Oct. 2022 | Geophysicist at [UNIVERSITY](https://LINK)|
## Education
| | |
| --- | --- |
| 2022 -- 2024 | Applied Geosciences (**M.Sc.**) at [RWTH Aachen University](https://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~a/root/?lidx=1) |
| 2019 -- 2022 | Geophysics (**B.Sc.**) at [UNIVERSITY](https://LINK) |
If you already have some publications you write show_publications: true otherwise you write show_publications: false. Fill in or remove the remaining parts as necessary.
Additionally, you have to add your contact details to the team/people.yml file. This file consists of all team members grouped by their category (i.e., management, research, technical, students, alumni). Add yourself to the correct category as follows:
firstname-lastname:
name: YOUR FULL NAME
title: ACADEMIC TITLE
role: YOUR ROLE
room: YOUR ROOM
mail: firstname.lastname@gim.rwth-aachen.de
image: firstname-lastname.jpg
The role could, for example, be PhD researcher, Student assistant, or M.Sc. student. The e-mail address should always be a university address, i.e., either @gim.rwth-aachen.de or @rwth-aachen.de.
Your profile images goes into images/_originals/team.
The publication lists are based on BibTeX files that are located in research/publications/publications.bib and research/conferences-contributions/contributions.bib. These files contain normal BibTeX entries. For more information on BibTeX, see the BibTex Format Description. If you add publications that you made before joining the GIM, please add note = {This conference contribution resulted from NAME's work prior to GIM.} to the BibTeX entry. The publications lists on your personal page and the research page of the institute are automatically updated according to the content of these two files. Do not add additional BibTeX files.
Each news entry is a markdown file in the folder news in the git repository. The general structure is as follows:
---
title: TITLE OF THE NEWS ENTRY
date: YYYY-MM-DD
image: YOUR_IMAGE.jpg
---
{%- import "macros.html" as macros %}
TEXT
You simply add a new file with such a structure and give it a significant name followed by an en-dash and the year of the news entry as well as the file ending .md, e.g., great-news-2024.md. The date provided in the markdown file has the format YYYY-MM-DD, i.e., Year-Month-Day. You should provide an image for the news entry. This images goes into images/_originals.