SPIRES and PDG Travis Brooks Pat Kreitz SLAC-SPIRES

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz2 Introduction  SPIRES Status Report  PDG & SPIRES  PPA Information Resource Summit

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz3 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Research Library Menlo Park, California, USA Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Institute of High Energy Physics Protvino, Russia Durham University Durham, United Kingdom Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Hamburg, Germany Fermi National Accelerator Lab Batavia, Illinois USA 37 Collaborators 9 Institutions SPIRES HEP Database Pending: Korea Indonesian Inst. of Sciences Jakarta, Indonesia Pending: Mexico Particle Data Group Berkeley, California USA Worldwide Collaborators Mirror Sites

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz4 Some SPIRES basics  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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz5 Jobs DB  Jobs is most popular “other” db  Jobs use has nearly doubled since Nov (35K searches/month)  Over 500 jobs/year  Much work by Fermilab Library Soon DESY to help with European jobs

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz6 Recent Projects  Linux  Indonesian Mirror  Citation Sorting  Biblio Tools

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz7 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz8 Indonesian Mirror  Feb up and running  Using Linux  Part of a collection of scientific resources for low bandwidth SE Asia  Using Linux

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz9 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz10 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz11 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz12 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz13 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz14 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz15 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

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Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz18 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz19 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz20 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

Oct 2006 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz21 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