SPIRES and PDG

Travis BrooksPat KreitzSLAC-SPIRES

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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…