1. E-Publishing at CERN: the life of an electronic document
J.-Y. Le Meur
CERN, ETT/DH

2. Questions What’s a document today ? What do we try to do with it ?
What can be its life cycle ?
What does it cost, to us and to you ?
What we would certainly like...

3. A Document today: Meta Data Meta-data Data
Abstract
Report Number
Publication
info
US MARC
Date 1-
Title
(URLs)
Authors
Keywords
LateX
Word
FrameMaker
HTML
PostScript
PDF
...
Data
Meta-data
Manual
Book
Photo
Video 2-
Article
Report
Preprint
Writeup
Note
Proceeding
Minute
Link To: all documents it refers to (and more)
URLs
Identifiers 3-
Linked From: all documents it is cited by (and more) 4-
Calls to Databases

4. Document cooking: Meta-data Data Link To Linked From Searchable
Browsable
Catalogued
Indexed
Readable
Printable
[Searchable]
Data
Converted
Stamped
[Indexed]
Quoted documents
Related documents
Docs from same author
[Conference]
[Publisher] ...
Direct
Indirect
Link To
Back Searching
References
Other databases
Linked From

5. Document life cycle: Revision Peer Review Approval Author
Official CERN
document (stamped)
CERN
Non official
CERN document
Subscribe
& archive
Send for publication
Review
Publishers
Revision
Published
Document
Approval

6. The four costs at CERN: Document creation Document reviewing
Evolution ?...
Persist
Move
Disappear
Document creation
Document reviewing
Journal subsciption
Journal/preprint archiving
100% x% y% y% x% x% y%
Will these costs remain in the electronic age ?

7. Wishes to publishers:
Electronic procedures for submission (easy forward of scientific notes)
Backwards electronic collection: retrospective digitalisation
Linking !
Provide us with publication information related to preprint number
Make us possible to link to you from the publication information: name - volume/year - page/issue