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SPIRES and PDG Collaboration: Enhancing Particle and Particle Astrophysics Information Resources

Explore the partnership between SPIRES and PDG in providing robust information resources for particle and particle astrophysics research. Learn about recent projects, future plans, and the upcoming PPA Information Resource Summit in May 2007.

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SPIRES and PDG Collaboration: Enhancing Particle and Particle Astrophysics Information Resources

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  1. SPIRES and PDG Travis Brooks Pat Kreitz SLAC-SPIRES

  2. Introduction • SPIRES Status Report • PDG & SPIRES • PPA Information Resource Summit T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  3. SPIRES HEP Database Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Research Library Menlo Park, California, USA Worldwide Collaborators Mirror Sites Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Hamburg, Germany Indonesian Inst. of Sciences Jakarta, Indonesia Fermi National Accelerator Lab Batavia, Illinois USA Institute of High Energy Physics Protvino, Russia Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Pending: Korea Durham University Durham, United Kingdom 37 Collaborators 9 Institutions Pending: Mexico Particle Data Group Berkeley, California USA T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  4. Some SPIRES basics • Searches/Month @ SLAC • Jul 2002: 661,000 • Jul 2003: 714,000 • Jul 2004: 924,000 • Jul 2005: 967,000 • Jul 2006: 1,176,000 • 6 mirror sites with additional 150,000 searches/month • Over 650,000 bibliographic records T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  5. Jobs DB • Jobs is most popular “other” db • Jobs use has nearly doubled since Nov. 2004 (35K searches/month) • Over 500 jobs/year • Much work by Fermilab Library • Soon DESY to help with European jobs T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  6. Recent Projects • Linux • Indonesian Mirror • Citation Sorting • Biblio Tools T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  7. Linux • Small (ish) rewrite to system to allow use of linux as well as Solaris platform • Cheaper and more universal platform • Completed and running Oct 2005 T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  8. Indonesian Mirror • Feb. 2006 up and running • Using Linux • Part of a collection of scientific resources for low bandwidth SE Asia • Using Linux T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  9. Citation Sorting • Can now sort by citation count • Useful for some things • Easy to get caught thinking it matters • Glashow-Salam-Weinberg • Small change, but significant infrastructure work to effect it T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  10. Biblio Tools • Send us your paper with a bare minimum of citation information embedded inline • Eprint • spires key • shorthand notation for journals • We send back full bibliography • Ordered • Correct • Up to date • Mildly popular T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  11. Other Recent Projects • OAI Harvesting extended- standard methods to harvest metadata from: • APS • Ann. Rev. • IOP • Less manual input • More efficient routines • Checking automated extraction T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  12. SPIRES’ Future at SLAC • SLAC’s focus as a lab is changing • However: • SLAC will continue to be involved in Particle and Particle Astrophysics • SLAC will continue to take a lead role in SPIRES as part of their PPA work T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  13. SPIRES’ Technical Future • SPIRES’ infrastructure is aging and has much inertia • We plan to overhaul the system in the coming 1-2 years • DBMS migration is likely (MySQL, pgSQL,?) • Also possible to retain SPIRES DBMS and simply “refactor” • Stay tuned-and feel free to give input T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  14. SPIRES and the PDG • Long history of collaboration • Our history is not as long as yours! • RPP records treated specially in SPIRES • All time citation leader • 26,000+ citations • RPP review sections entered as well • Connected to main entry • Needs to be done for 2006 T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  15. PDG<->SPIRES Linking • From Main RPP records to PDG • From Reviews to RPP • PDG provides SPIRES with papers not in SPIRES used by RPP • PDG online links to SPIRES T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

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  18. Future Plans with PDG • Links to new PDG DB system from papers used in RPP • Test links already worked • Need to create new live links to new PDG system • Probably this is easy, but just need to finish the project T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  19. PPA Information Resource Summit • SLAC Library is inviting all major Information Resource Providers for Particle and Particle Astrophysics to a summit • Mid/Late May 2007 • PDG is hereby invited T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  20. Summit (cont’d) • Other Invitees • SPIRES Collaboration • Fermilab • DESY • Durham U. • Kyoto U. • CERN • arXiv • ADS • JACoW • ??? • No journals • Just to keep it smaller and from a limited set of perspectives T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

  21. Summit (cont’d) • Rough Agenda • How can we work together to provide better service to our primary user community (-ies) • SPIRES and CERN plan to survey users prior to the summit • Very brief summaries of our efforts and services • Lots of brainstorming T. Brooks/P. Kreitz

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