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SPIRES and PDG
Travis BrooksPat KreitzSLAC-SPIRES
Nov 2004 PDG Meeting T. Brooks/P. Kreitz 2
Introduction
Basics Some Recent Projects Experiments DB Future Plans
In the context of SPIRES and PDG
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Introductions
New (Feb 2004) SPIRES Software Developer : Mike Sullivan
Previously-Stanford U. SPIRES developer
Position on hold for 4 years-now filled More bandwidth for improvements
etc.!!
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Some SPIRES basics
Over half a million bibliographic records
Searches/Month @ SLAC Oct 2002: 790,000 Oct 2003: 885,000 Oct 2004: 1,117,000
5 mirror sites with additional 150,000 searches/month
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SPIRES Web Searches
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Recent Projects
Website Redesign Seamless Re-sort Playground Titles and Authors New Databases
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Complete Redesign of SPIRES site
~100 pages SLAC SciArts group Live May 2004 Still working on CSS and XHTML 1.0
Standards Compliance Expect to export to mirrors when
completed by end of year
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Spires Sample
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Seamless Re-sorting
Massive project to allow quicker display of papers in oft-requested descending date order Challenge to do this without breaking existing
links to database Proof of Principle/Test System Done “Real Soon Now”
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Statistics Playground
An area for statistics about the papers in the database Interesting questions for/from the
community Not meant as absolute gospel
1,500 hits in its first month
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Spires Sample
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Titles and Authors
New methods to allow “synonym” searching in titles Abbreviations, hyphens, acronyms Not thesaurus synonyms
Broader subject search combining Title Author supplied keywords DESY supplied keywords PACS ?
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Titles and Authors
Authors need better distinction J. Smith etc is getting too common Ideas but no working model…yet Use the HEPNames database to drive a
lot of this
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Spires Sample
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New* Databases
Jobs Listing of Jobs of interest to HEP people Free to posters and searchers Weeded for closed positions 20K searches/month (seasonal)
Video Records of over 2,000 streaming videos of
conferences and other talks hosted at many (external) locations
*New since last PDG meeting (Jobs:Dec 2002 Video:Feb 2003)
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Experiments DB
Jan 2004 hired part-time Experiments DB maintainer: Yasuko Weyhrauch Works with SPIRES at SLAC in other
functions Combination of PDG and SPIRES money
paid her through Sept. 2004
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Accomplishments
Of the total 2,400 experiments listed, she “touched” over 1,300
Added 50 new experiments Scanned laboratory websites like SLAC to
update information about experiments Answered 300 emails from spokespeople,
users, etc, relating to experiments information
Numerous other tasks to integrate with other SPIRES DBs
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Future Plans with PDG
Links to new PDG DB system Test links already worked
Removed Will replace when system is ready
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Future Joint Efforts
Continued Collaboration, cross-linking, and mirroring with: PDG Durham Reaction Data ADS Others…