Enhancement: Journal widgets

[vincerubinetti]

@dhimmel and @zietzm and I were discussing this over lunch. We could have convenient javascript widgets/embeds that people could embed on their websites that show some information about a manubot repository manuscript (or multiple).

If you're not familiar with the concept of widgets, take a look at the soundcloud one.

It could look something like this (very rough mockup):

There could be multiple sizes/types for different contexts and needed brevity. The theme could also be easily customizable to suit the user's particular webpage.

To use it, it would just be a small script that you'd copy and paste into your website code (like the google analytics one) with a manubot repository as an argument, and then would scrape the relevant or desired metadata from that repository, and display it nicely in a badge inline on the webpage.

This could be useful for individuals wanting to show off their new manubot manuscript, say in a blog post. It could even be useful for organizations trying to start their own journals, who want a pre-built widget that takes a list of paper repos as an argument and shows a searchable list of paper badges.

Something to think about in the long term future.