Metadata

A list's metadata describes it as a package — it's used when publishing to Monlib with scimon push. During a normal run only the author is read (it becomes the author of any generated EPUB). Like a crate's Cargo.toml, metadata lives in a package.yml file next to your .mon list.

# package.yml
name: "Scimon"
description: "A collection of papers and resources."
author: "YeDawa"
license: "MIT"
privacy: "Public"
homepage: "https://kremilly.com"

Field	Description
name	Package name.
description	Short description of the list.
author	Author name, or a list of authors.
license	License identifier (e.g."MIT").
privacy	Visibility, e.g."Public" or "Private".
homepage	Project or author homepage URL.

All fields are optional. package.yml is read from the same directory as the .mon file being run.

Multiple authors

author may be a single value or a list — and authors works as an alias:

author:
  - "YeDawa"
  - "Another Dev"

# inline list form
author: ["YeDawa", "Another Dev"]

# alias
authors: ["YeDawa", "Another Dev"]

A list is joined into a single comma-separated value (Kremilly, Another Dev).

Example layout

my-list/
├── package.yml
└── scimon.mon

# scimon.mon
path "downloads/"

downloads {
    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.08877 as "arxiv_paper.pdf"
}

The author is reused elsewhere too — for example as the EPUB author when an ai/download entry produces an .epub.