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SPIRES-HEP @ SLAC Travis Brooks SLAC-SPIRES 5/10/07 Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit

SPIRES-HEP Inputs Most Journa ls Conf. Proc e. Conf ar. Xiv SLAC Publ. APS (PRD) PDG ADS DESY OAI-PMH (XML) Durham React. Users (25 -50 emails/day) De-duping Ref. /Auth Checking Affiliations Keywords SPIRES HEP 5/10/07 Fermilab Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit SLAC

SPIRES-HEP Outputs SPIRES HEP RSS Publ. Data Citation Data HTML Biblio Tools PDG ar. Xiv Bibliometrics 5/10/07 Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit Sci. Users

SPIRES-HEP Strengths n Accurate citation data n Citation counts by author, as well as by paper n Affiliation data n Author disambiguation n Metrics for institutions n Responsive to users n Corrections/Additions n User-suggested Features n Brand Name (1. 25 MSearches/month) 5/10/07 Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit

SPIRES-HEP Weaknesses n Aging infrastructure n DBMS 40 years old, essentially unsupported n Big ball of mud architecture n Not so nimble anymore. . . n Fussy search syntax n Vast metadata mostly not searched 5/10/07 Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit

Collaborations n SPIRES-HEP is SLAC+DESY+Fermilab with input from Durham U. n OAI-PMH harvesting with APS, ar. Xiv n working on IOP, JHEP, others n n PDGLive interlinking coming online soon n ADS journal/eprint correspondences have been discussed n Further projects with any number of people in the room! 5/10/07 Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit

Future Plans n More flexible, modern architecture n Authoring tools n Better search/retrieval interface n Timeline reports n Web services n Collaborative Filtering n Better author tracking based on affiliation and experiment history 5/10/07 Travis Brooks - PPA Info. Resource Summit