content_schema.json

{
  "forbidden_fields": [
    "draft",
    "publishdate",
    "expirydate"
  ],
  "types": {
    "default": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "key": "title",
          "label": "Title",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "seed": "name"
        },
        {
          "key": "date",
          "label": "Created",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "seed": "date"
        }
      ]
    },
    "people": {
      "groups": [
        {
          "id": "professor",
          "heading": "Professor",
          "subtitle": "",
          "alumni": "Professors",
          "roles": [
            "Professor"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "postdoc",
          "heading": "Post-Docs",
          "subtitle": "",
          "alumni": "Post-Docs",
          "roles": [
            "Post-Doc"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "graduate-phd",
          "heading": "Graduate Students",
          "subtitle": "PhD",
          "alumni": "PhD",
          "roles": [
            "PhD Student"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "graduate-master",
          "heading": "Graduate Students",
          "subtitle": "Master's",
          "alumni": "Master's",
          "roles": [
            "MSc Student",
            "MASc Student",
            "MEng Student"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "undergraduate",
          "heading": "Research Trainees",
          "subtitle": "Undergraduate",
          "alumni": "Undergraduate students",
          "roles": [
            "Undergraduate Student"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "forbidden_fields": {
        "title": "Use name for member profiles.",
        "summary": "Put biography text on an optional personal page."
      },
      "fields": [
        {
          "key": "name",
          "label": "Display name",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "required": true,
          "seed": "name",
          "section": "Identity",
          "help": "Your name as it should appear on the website."
        },
        {
          "key": "slug",
          "label": "Member identifier",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "required": true,
          "seed": "slug",
          "format": "slug",
          "help": "Lowercase words separated by hyphens. Changing an existing identifier renames the member file and matching personal-site folder, and updates local references. Old shared URLs will change; you must confirm before saving."
        },
        {
          "key": "role",
          "label": "Role / degree",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "PhD Student",
          "required": true,
          "options_source": "roles",
          "help": "Choose the exact degree: MSc = Master of Science; MASc = Master of Applied Science; MEng = Master of Engineering. Alumni keep their role in MSRG."
        },
        {
          "key": "status",
          "label": "Membership",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "current",
          "required": true,
          "options": [
            "current",
            "visiting",
            "alumni"
          ],
          "help": "Current team, visiting researcher, or former member."
        },
        {
          "key": "visiting",
          "label": "Former visiting researcher",
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
          "help": "Enable for someone manually marked alumni who was a visitor. Scheduled transitions preserve this automatically."
        },
        {
          "key": "location",
          "label": "Location",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "Toronto, Canada"
        },
        {
          "key": "start_date",
          "label": "Start date",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "partial-date",
          "section": "Dates",
          "help": "Optional: YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD. Used for sorting, not displayed on the people page. Saved dates are still visible in the public repository; leave empty if unknown or private."
        },
        {
          "key": "end_date",
          "label": "Last day / month / year in MSRG",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "partial-date",
          "help": "Optional. Only the year is displayed for alumni. A build after this period moves the person to alumni (Toronto time). Leave empty if uncertain; expected graduation alone need not end membership."
        },
        {
          "key": "research",
          "label": "Research areas",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "options_source": "research",
          "section": "Research",
          "help": "Select all relevant research areas. The choices come from the research pages."
        },
        {
          "key": "interests",
          "label": "Specialities",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "suggestions_source": "saved_values",
          "help": "Add your specialities, for example Distributed Systems or Quantum Computing."
        },
        {
          "key": "portrait",
          "label": "Portrait",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "portrait",
          "section": "Portrait and links",
          "help": "Upload a profile photo below or choose an existing photo. Use a portrait, not a banner."
        },
        {
          "key": "portrait_position",
          "label": "Photo crop alignment",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "center",
          "options": [
            "top",
            "center",
            "bottom"
          ],
          "archetype": false,
          "help": "Choose top if a square crop cuts off the top of your head."
        },
        {
          "key": "email",
          "label": "Email",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "email",
          "help": "Public contact address. Prefer your university or work email, as bots regularly scrape the web for email addresses. Leave empty if you prefer not to share one."
        },
        {
          "key": "homepage",
          "label": "External personal website",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url",
          "help": "Your website hosted elsewhere. It has a separate globe icon and can appear alongside your MSRG personal page."
        },
        {
          "key": "scholar",
          "label": "Google Scholar",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "orcid",
          "label": "ORCID",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "linkedin",
          "label": "LinkedIn",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url",
          "host": "linkedin.com",
          "https_only": true
        },
        {
          "key": "github",
          "label": "GitHub",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "dblp",
          "label": "DBLP",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "researchgate",
          "label": "ResearchGate",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "ieee",
          "label": "IEEE",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "author_names",
          "label": "Your name as it appears on publications",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "section": "Publications and awards",
          "help": "Add each version of your own name used in publication author lists, for example Jane Doe or J. Doe. Use the exact spelling from the paper so publications can be linked to your profile."
        },
        {
          "key": "awards",
          "label": "Awards and funding",
          "type": "objects",
          "default": [],
          "help": "Optional award and application links. Leave the funding link empty if unavailable.",
          "fields": [
            {
              "key": "name",
              "label": "Award name",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "url",
              "label": "Award page",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "format": "url",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "funding_url",
              "label": "Funding / application page",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "format": "url"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "editor": {
        "label": "Member profiles",
        "body": false
      }
    },
    "publications": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "key": "title",
          "label": "Title",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "required": true,
          "seed": "name"
        },
        {
          "key": "date",
          "label": "Entry creation date",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "editor": false,
          "seed": "date",
          "help": "Optional date this website entry was created, used for page metadata and feeds. Leave blank if unknown. Use Year below for the paper's publication year."
        },
        {
          "key": "year",
          "label": "Year",
          "type": "integer",
          "default": 2026,
          "required": true,
          "seed": "year"
        },
        {
          "key": "authors",
          "label": "Authors",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "suggestions_source": "member_names",
          "help": "Search website members or type any author's name. Add authors in the order shown on the paper, using their published names.",
          "required": true
        },
        {
          "key": "venue",
          "label": "Venue",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "required": true
        },
        {
          "key": "external_url",
          "label": "Paper URL",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "required": true,
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "publication_type",
          "label": "Publication type",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "Conference Paper",
          "required": true,
          "options": [
            "Conference Paper",
            "Journal Article",
            "Workshop Paper",
            "Book Chapter",
            "Book",
            "Edited Book",
            "ArXiv Preprint",
            "Preprint",
            "Technical Report",
            "Doctoral Thesis",
            "Master's Thesis",
            "Dataset",
            "Software"
          ],
          "help": "Choose the publication's format. If the correct option is not available, contact the site owner to have it added."
        },
        {
          "key": "research",
          "label": "Research areas",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "options_source": "research"
        },
        {
          "key": "abstract",
          "label": "Abstract",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "multiline": true,
          "format": "markdown",
          "help": "Paste the paper's abstract. Use Markdown for emphasis and LaTeX for formulas: $x^2$ or \\(x^2\\) inline; $$...$$ or \\[...\\] for a separate equation. The formatting buttons help; save and open the local preview to check the result. Use code formatting for literal dollar amounts. Full LaTeX documents and custom packages are not supported."
        },
        {
          "key": "abstract_license_url",
          "label": "Abstract license",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url",
          "editor": false
        },
        {
          "key": "tags",
          "label": "Tags",
          "type": "strings",
          "suggestions_source": "saved_values",
          "default": []
        },
        {
          "key": "related_datasets",
          "label": "Related datasets",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "options_source": "data-sets"
        }
      ],
      "editor": {
        "label": "Publications",
        "body": true,
        "body_label": "Additional notes",
        "body_help": "Optional commentary, companion material, or other details. Put the paper's abstract in the Abstract field above."
      }
    },
    "personal": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "key": "layout",
          "label": "Page template",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "single",
          "options": [
            "single",
            "academic",
            "structured"
          ],
          "help": "single: simple reading page; academic: profile sidebar; structured: sections and highlights.",
          "allow_empty": false
        },
        {
          "key": "title",
          "label": "Title override",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "archetype": false,
          "help": "Defaults to the name in your member record."
        },
        {
          "key": "url",
          "label": "URL (legacy override)",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "archetype": false,
          "editor": false
        },
        {
          "key": "custom_css",
          "label": "Extra stylesheets",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "archetype": false,
          "editor": false
        },
        {
          "key": "description",
          "label": "Short description",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "multiline": true,
          "archetype": false
        },
        {
          "key": "subtitle",
          "label": "Subtitle",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ]
        },
        {
          "key": "tone",
          "label": "Colour theme",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "navy",
          "options": [
            "navy",
            "copper",
            "sage"
          ],
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ]
        },
        {
          "key": "focus",
          "label": "Current focus",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ]
        },
        {
          "key": "primary_link",
          "label": "Primary link",
          "type": "object",
          "default": {},
          "fields": [
            {
              "key": "label",
              "label": "Label",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "url",
              "label": "Link",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "format": "link",
              "required": true
            }
          ],
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ]
        },
        {
          "key": "quick_links",
          "label": "Quick links",
          "type": "objects",
          "default": [],
          "fields": [
            {
              "key": "label",
              "label": "Label",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "url",
              "label": "Link",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "format": "link",
              "required": true
            }
          ],
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ]
        },
        {
          "key": "highlights",
          "label": "Highlights",
          "type": "objects",
          "default": [],
          "fields": [
            {
              "key": "title",
              "label": "Title",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "description",
              "label": "Description",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "multiline": true
            }
          ],
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ]
        },
        {
          "key": "timeline",
          "label": "Timeline",
          "type": "objects",
          "default": [],
          "fields": [
            {
              "key": "period",
              "label": "Period",
              "type": "string",
              "default": ""
            },
            {
              "key": "title",
              "label": "Title",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "description",
              "label": "Description",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "multiline": true
            }
          ],
          "archetype": false,
          "templates": [
            "structured"
          ],
          "reorderable": true
        }
      ],
      "editor": {
        "label": "Personal Pages",
        "body": true
      }
    },
    "data-sets": {
      "editor": {
        "label": "Datasets and downloads",
        "body": true
      },
      "fields": [
        {
          "key": "title",
          "label": "Title",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "required": true,
          "seed": "name"
        },
        {
          "key": "summary",
          "label": "Summary",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "multiline": true
        },
        {
          "key": "source",
          "label": "Source / creator",
          "type": "string",
          "default": ""
        },
        {
          "key": "research",
          "label": "Research areas",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "options_source": "research"
        },
        {
          "key": "downloads",
          "label": "Downloads",
          "type": "objects",
          "default": [],
          "fields": [
            {
              "key": "label",
              "label": "Label",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "key": "url",
              "label": "Link",
              "type": "string",
              "default": "",
              "format": "link",
              "required": true
            }
          ],
          "help": "Add a verified web link, or upload a file using the Upload button beside its link."
        },
        {
          "key": "resource_url",
          "label": "Related resource",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "format": "url"
        },
        {
          "key": "resource_label",
          "label": "Resource label",
          "type": "string",
          "default": ""
        },
        {
          "key": "related_publication",
          "label": "Related publication",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "options_source": "publications"
        },
        {
          "key": "legacy_package",
          "label": "Original archive name",
          "type": "string",
          "default": "",
          "help": "Optional: retain the name of a missing historical archive."
        },
        {
          "key": "aliases",
          "label": "Previous website paths",
          "type": "strings",
          "default": [],
          "help": "Add previous website paths such as /old-page/ to redirect them to this page."
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}