1. JACoW Team Meeting Scientific Program Management System
Repository Structure & Facility
Matt Arena, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

2. SPMS Requirements Oracle 9i database Release 2 or later.
Oracle Inter Media (standard with DB).
Oracle iAS 9i or later.
Very small disk and I/O requirements.
Platform independent.
Minimal database privileges required.
No difference between repository and conference… It is all in the parameters.
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3. Browser Requirements Netscape 6 or higher.
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 4 or higher.
Session Cookies
No cookie files stored on disk.
Expires when logout link clicked or browser is closed.
JavaScript
HTML form validation.
dTree menu.
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4. Email Facility Queue built into SPMS. Email stored in three tables
Mail Blats, Mail Sent Blats, Mail Blats Errors
SPMS writes to queue via standard procedure.
Batch job flushes queue very 5 minutes.
Systems parameters: SMTP host and admin .
No OS disk I/O. sent directly to SMTP host.
Archives saved in Mail Sent Blats tables.
Errors written to Mail Blats Errors table.
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5. Conference Email Utility
Abstract-based criteria.
Specify recipients.
Accepts free-form text.
Substitution variables.
All messages are tied to an abstract.
Demo
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November 2005, INFN Frascati, Italy, Matt Arena 5

6. Repository Email Utility
Profile-based criteria
Accepts free-form text.
Substitution variables.
All messages are tied to profile.
archive utility allows the conference administrator to view all s via drilldown.
Demo
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7. Archives
archive utility allows the conference administrator to view all s sent in a drilldown fashion.
Available in a conference database and repository database.
Each conference is visible to the user in their abstract log.
Users can’t claim they didn’t get the . At least in theory. So far no code to make them read the .
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