Homepage for the AIST Research Group

Jekyll website for the AIST – Advanced Information Systems and Technology research group at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg.

The site is built with Jekyll and deployed to GitHub Pages through a GitHub Actions workflow (see .github/workflows/deploy.yml). The site is bilingual (German / English) using jekyll-polyglot, and static full-text search is provided by Pagefind.

❗💥 Warning: Pushing to main triggers a deployment — changes go live shortly after! 💥❗

Please test considerable changes in a local setup first.

Local Development

Prerequisites

• Git with Git LFS (all images are tracked via LFS — see Images & Git LFS)
• Ruby

Install Git and Clone the Repository

Get Git from https://git-scm.com/ (or GitHub Desktop), then make sure Git LFS is enabled:

git lfs install

Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/FHOOEAIST/aist.github.io.git
cd aist.github.io

Install Bundler and Jekyll

gem install bundler # Install Bundler (if not already installed)
bundle install

Start the Build System

Start the local development server with:

bundle exec jekyll serve

The site is then available at http://127.0.0.1:4000/aist.github.io/. Changes to Markdown and HTML files are picked up automatically.

The Pagefind search index is not built by jekyll, so the search UI will be empty locally. To try it locally you can run, after a build:

npx pagefind --site _site # or bunx if bun is preferred

Internationalization

The site is bilingual via jekyll-polyglot, with German as the default language and English as the secondary language.

Conventions:

• Collections (_posts, _projects, _publications, _theses) are split into de/ and en/ subdirectories. Each file carries a lang: field.
• Top-level pages exist as a German version (page.html) and an English version (page-en.html).
• Translations of the same content are linked by a shared page_id (e.g. news:my-post, projects:bambi, pub:..., thesis:...). The language switcher uses this to jump between the DE and EN versions.

News Posts

Blog-style news entries shown on the news page.

• Location: _posts/{de,en}/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md

---
lang: de
title: Some News Post
date: 2024-09-07T11:05:15+02:00 # Optional, overrides the date in the filename
page_id: news:some-news-post
title_image: /assets/images/news/example_title.jpg
---

Markdown body of the news post...

Projects

Project showcases. These appear in the project carousels on the home page (filtered by category) and on the projects listing (split into active / completed based on the end date).

• Location: _projects/{de,en}/slug.md

---
lang: de
title: Bambi
logo: /assets/images/projects/Bambi_logo.png
background: /assets/images/projects/Bambi_background.jpg
category: cv            # ehealth | ml | cv
page_id: projects:bambi
permalink: /projects/bambi/  # optional
projects:
  - title: Bambi
    laufzeitStart: 01.04.2022   # DD.MM.YYYY
    laufzeitEnd: 30.04.2025
    partner: FH OÖ Media Interaction Lab, ...
    foerdergeber: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft FFG – AI4Green
    dissertant: <optional>
  - title: Bambi 2
    laufzeitStart: 01.05.2025
    laufzeitEnd: 30.04.2028
    partner: FH OÖ Media Interaction Lab, ...
    foerdergeber: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft FFG – AI4Green
    dissertant: <optional>
---

Markdown description for Bambi...

---

Markdown description for Bambi 2...

The project layout splits the Markdown body on --- and pairs each section with the corresponding entry in the projects list. This lets a single file describe multi-phase projects. The listing uses laufzeitEnd to decide whether a project is still active.

Publications

Research papers, shown grouped by year with a category filter.

• Location: _publications/{de,en}/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md (dates typically use 12-31)

---
lang: de
page_id: pub:modeling-wildlife-accident-risk-with-gaussian-mixture-models
permalink: /publications/modeling-wildlife-accident-risk-with-gaussian-mixture-models/  # optional, used as anchor for search
date: 2024-12-31
title: Modeling Wildlife Accident Risk with Gaussian Mixture Models
reference: Praschl C., Schedl D., Stöckl A. "Modeling Wildlife Accident Risk with Gaussian Mixture Models", EUROCAST 2024.
category: cv            # ehealth | ml | cv
external_url: https://example.org/abstract-book.pdf
doi: https://doi.org/10.0000/example        # optional
attachment: /assets/.../paper.pdf            # optional
---

Abstract (Markdown)...

Theses

Bachelor/Master theses, shown grouped by year.

• Location: _theses/{de,en}/YYYY-student-title.md

---
lang: de
page_id: thesis:andreas-erhard-process-mining-...
permalink: /theses/andreas-erhard-process-mining-.../  # optional, used as anchor for search
date: 2023-12-31
title: Process Mining im Radiologiebereich
student: Andreas Erhard
project_url: https://aist.fh-hagenberg.at/index.php/de/projekte/pica  # optional
---

Abstract (Markdown)...

Team

Team members are listed from _data/team.yml

---

Images & Git LFS

All binary image formats are tracked with Git LFS (see .gitattributes):

Before cloning or committing images, make sure LFS is installed and initialized (git lfs install). Image assets live under assets/images/, organized by use (team/, projects/, news/, ...). Reference them in front matter and Markdown via their absolute path, e.g. /assets/images/projects/Bambi_logo.png.

Deployment

Deployment is automated via .github/workflows/deploy.yml: