Update: add page organized by date

docs/_toc.yml

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ root: readme
 parts:
   - caption: Contributing
     chapters:
-    - file: contributing/index
-    - file: contributing/submit_app
-    - file: contributing/format
+      - file: contributing/index
+      - file: contributing/submit_app
+      - file: contributing/format
 
   - caption: By tag
     chapters:
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ parts:
     chapters:
 {license_toc}
 
-    # when adding new chapters here, don't forget to also add them to the scipts/generate_link_lists.py file
+  - caption: What's New
+    chapters:
+{date_toc}
 
-
   - caption: Appendix
     chapters:
-    - file: statistics/readme
-    - file: export/readme
-    - file: imprint
+      - file: statistics/readme
+      - file: export/readme
+      - file: imprint

scripts/generate_link_lists.py

@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+def generate_by_publish_date(content, output_file):
+    """Generates a markdown file organized by publish date for blog-like content organization."""
+    sorted_content = sorted(
+        content['resources'], 
+        key=lambda x: str(x.get('publication_date', '0000-00-00')),
+        reverse=True
+    )
+
+    with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
+        file.write("# What's New\n")
+        for entry in sorted_content:
+            name = entry.get('name', 'Untitled')
+            pub_date = entry.get('publication_date', 'No Date')
+            authors = entry.get('authors', 'Unknown')
+            description = entry.get('description', 'No description available.')
+            url = entry.get('url', '')
+
+            file.write(f"## {name} - {pub_date}\n")
+            file.write(f"*Authors:* {authors}\n")
+            file.write(f"*Published on:* {pub_date}\n\n")
+            file.write(f"{description}\n")
+            file.write(f"\n[Link to content]({url})\n")
+            file.write("\n---\n")
+
 def main():
     """
     When called from the terminal, this script goes through our yml files and generates .md files. 
@@ -63,6 +87,11 @@ def main():
             author_toc += "    - file: " + filename + "\n"    
     replace_in_file(toc_file, "{author_toc}", author_toc)
 
+    # Generate the 'What's New' page with content sorted by publish date
+    date_toc = "    - file: whats_new"  
+    generate_by_publish_date(content, "docs/whats_new.md")  
+    replace_in_file(toc_file, "{date_toc}", date_toc) 
+
     # go through all urls and detect duplicates
     all_urls = collect_all(content, "url")
     duplicate_found = False