1. SPIRES and PDG Travis Brooks Pat Kreitz SLAC-SPIRES

2. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz2 Introduction  Basics  Some Recent Projects  Experiments DB  Future Plans In the context of SPIRES and PDG

3. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz3 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.!!

4. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz4 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

5. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz5 SPIRES Web Searches

6. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz6 Recent Projects  Website Redesign  Seamless Re-sort  Playground  Titles and Authors  New Databases

7. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz7 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

8. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz8 Spires Sample

9. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz9 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”

10. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz10 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

11. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz11 Spires Sample

12. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz12 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 ?

13. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz13 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

14. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz14 Spires Sample

15. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz15 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)

16. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz16 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

17. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz17 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

18. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz18 Future Plans with PDG  Links to new PDG DB system Test links already worked  Removed  Will replace when system is ready

19. Nov 2004 PDG MeetingT. Brooks/P. Kreitz19 Future Joint Efforts  Continued Collaboration, cross- linking, and mirroring with: PDG Durham Reaction Data ADS Others…