1. Annette Holtkamp - 2nd HEP Information Summit, DESY, May 20-21, 2008
Inspire: Overview
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History
1962: DESY HEP Index
1968: SPIRES DB at SLAC
1974: Birth of SPIRES HEP, jointly run by SLAC and DESY
1985: interface to SPIRES
May 1991: WWW on central CERN machines
Aug 1991: Birth of arXiv at Los Alamos
Dec 1991: Web interface to SPIRES, first US web server
1993: CERN preprint server on the web
1996: onset of the Google era
2000: CERN Document Server
2002: CDS digital library software (→ Invenio)
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Recent History
May 07: 1st HEP Information Resource Summit (SLAC)
Meeting of HEP information providers to discuss future information systems
Spring 07: HEP survey
Investigation on the information behaviour of HEP scientists proving the outstanding importance of community-based information systems and informing on needs, wishes, and expectations
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Status 1 year ago
HEP community
Relying on community-based information services
Growing information needs
Expecting state-of-the-art tools
Two “competing” community-run information systems
With slightly different focus (institutional – subject repository)
Much duplication of cataloguing and enrichment work
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Status 1 year ago
SPIRES
Very popular
Veteran system showing cracks:
Old and lonely database engine
Massive effort needed to change codebase
Much time spent on fixing instead of developing
Looking for a new platform
CDS / Invenio:
Modern digital library system
Lightly used (mainly institutional repository)
High potential
Perfect match?
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1st Summit, SLAC, May 07
Goal:
Bring together important information providers in HEP
Discuss future of HEP information systems
Prepare ground for cooperative projects
Most important result:
CERN, DESY, Fermilab, SLAC decide to jointly develop a modern information platform for HEP
→ Invenio + SPIRES = Inspire
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People behind Inspire
SLAC:
Ann Redfield, Pat Kreitz
Travis Brooks, Mike Sullivan
Fermilab:
Heath O’Connell, Rob Atkinson
DESY:
Annette Holtkamp, Kirsten Sachs, Zaven Akopov
CERN:
Jens Vigen, Salvatore Mele
Tim Smith, Jean-Yves Le Meur, Tibor Šimko
Marko Niinimäki, Radoslav Ivanov
. . . library cataloguers, curators, Invenio programmers
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8. Formal agreement by laboratory managements
…Our discipline is living a golden era of global projects, with laboratories and universities worldwide collaborating in the operation, design and construction of present and future detectors and accelerators, and the common vision of CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC is to build an unique global HEP information platform.
We therefore express our interest in engaging resources towards two goals:
The realisation of INSPIRE. This new platform will merge the content of the SPIRES and CDS databases, using the Invenio technology, reproducing and extending SPIRES
functionalities. It will be built by a collaboration of our Digital Library experts.
The long-term maintenance and enrichment of INSPIRE, combining the complementary
experience accrued in the curation of the SPIRES and CDS databases, to meet the current
and evolving needs of our communities.
We look forward to a prosperous worldwide collaboration to build and
operate INSPIRE, which will empower scientists with new tools for
successful research at the onset of an era of new discoveries.
EoI signed by CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC directorates, May 08
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Inspire
Vision:
Community-based and user-driven next-generation HEP information system
Empowering scientists with new tools to discover and access research results
Enabling web2.0, text- and data-mining applications + …
Imperative:
No disruption for our users
Keep SPIRES principles/feeling
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Inspire
Phase I (past):
Feasibility study
Test compatibility of SPIRES and Invenio
Phase II (present):
Reproduce SPIRES functionalities
Small group of 4 labs with tight focus
Phase III (future):
Develop new (community-independent) applications
Involve more partners
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Steps taken
Process:
Biweekly phone conferences
Regular work meetings
Mailing lists, wiki
Joint code repository
Summer 07 (phase I):
Formulate SPIRES requirements
Check out Invenio
Map record structure
Autumn 07 (start of phase II):
After success of phase I decision in favor of Invenio
Oct 07 1st Inspire workshop (CERN)
Conversion of SPIRES data to MARC …
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Steps taken
Winter 07/08:
Catalogue of enrichment scripts
Analysis of cataloguing and inputting workflow
SPIRES HEP loaded into Invenio
Feb 08 2nd Inspire workshop (CERN)
Spring 08:
Web formats
Citation analysis
Reproduction of SPIRES search syntax
May 08 3rd Inspire workshop (DESY)
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Current status
Basically all important SPIRES functionalities reproduced
Alpha version ready for testing
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Short-term roadmap
Summer/Autumn 08:
Alpha testing
Mirror architecture
Design and implementation of common workflow
Enrichment scripts
Cooperation with other providers essential
e.g. metadata content, exchange formats and methods…
Next steps:
alpha public interface → beta public interface
Live updating from SPIRES
Bug fixes etc
alpha curation interface
Allow our staffs to maintain records easily
Develop interoperability with other groups
Full and complete replacement of SPIRES
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2nd Summit
Present the status and goals of Inspire
Hear about developments and plans from all participants
Get inspiration from outside HEP
Discuss partnership opportunities
Agree on concrete next steps
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