jacow team meeting summary of meeting hywel owen and cathy eyberger

JACoW Team Meeting

Summary of Meeting

Hywel Owen and Cathy Eyberger

Presentation Summary,November 2005, INFN Frascati, Italy, Hywel Owen and Cathy Eyberger 2

SPMS Conferences• PAC 2001 Chicago, Illinois, USA• PAC 2003 Portland, Oregon, USA• BIW 2004 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA• EPAC 2004 Lucerne, Switzerland• LINAC 2004 Lübeck, Germany• FEL 2004 Trieste, Italy• Cyclotrons 2004 Tokyo, Japan• Aspen 2005 Aspen, Colorado, USA• PAC 2005 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA• DIPAC 2005 Lyon, France• FEL 2005 Stanford, California, USA• COOL 2005 Galena, Illinois, USA• EPAC 2006 Edinburgh, Scotland• BIW 2006 Batavia, Illinois, USA• LINAC 2006 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA• PAC 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA


SPMS and Repository• History• Objectives• Features added recently• Implementation• Main features• Architecture• Administrative roles• How to start implementing

SPMS• How does SPMS work?• Profiles and accounts• The Agreement

• SPMS requirements• Browser requirements• Email facility• Conference email utility• Repository email utility• Email archives


Setting up a New Conference

• Web site at FNAL with zip files containing SPMS files at www-esh.fnal.gov/spms/

• Zip files include list of files you need and readme file with step-by-step instructions

• Hardware requirements• File server and db server should be

separate• Also presented information on

JACoW repository, background jobs, SPMS User setup, email facility, data dictionary, and additions


Classifications and Sub-classifications

• Description of classifications

• Main Classifications screen – fields(PAC and EPAC styles are merging)

• Sub-classifications screen (entered by Administrator)

• Combine Main and Sub-classifications screens

• Presentation types for Contributions (e.g., invited oral, contributed oral, poster, etc.)

• Presentation types for Sessions (places a type of presentation in a physical space)

• Conclusion: There is a certain confusion about the way these two screens are labeled and used


Abstracts, Their Submission and QA – Charlie Horak

• How to set up SPMS to accept abstracts

• What constitutes abstract QA

• How to reclassify abstracts


Program Codes – Charlie Horak

• How to create program codes

• How to number the papers and reassign IDs manually


Invitation-Only Conferences – Michaela Marx

• Description of an invitation-only conference

• How LINAC04 handled abstract submission: full-service for invitees

• Administrator duties


SPMS Functionality and Data Flows

• Description of the authors interface

• Adding a new author

• Abstracts list and main screen for authors

• What’s behind a new profile

• What happens after submitting an abstract

• Paper uploading

• When and why to resubmit a paper

• QA

• Conference setup

• From abstract to contributions

• Paper reviewing

• Paper editing

• Quality assurance

• Proceedings production


Registration Modules

• General Functionality• Data Flow--General• Data Flow--Payments• How to set up a

registration form: defining fields, building web pages

• The Administrator’s role

• Overview• Payment form• Follow-up email sent• Taking payments

[discussion on various methods of taking credit card payments]


Processing Workflow Review

• Processing– The LOC perspective– The author perspective– Security issues– Paper submission framework

• Editing Module– Get Next Paper button– Active papers– Other links– SPMS Editor Workflow graphic

• Refereeing Module (New!)– History– Proposed workflow for adding a

refereeing module– Actual workflow (JACoW editing took

place before the refereeing)– Clear and confusing needs for next

time– Suggested system parameters– Wish list for next time

• Poster Police– Policy– Role of poster session managers (a/k/a

poster police)– Poster police interface– Search for nonconforming posters– Email application

• QA– Purpose– OK for publication– Editor’s page / Paper final QA– QA editor actions– Result of actions


Pre-Press & Publication (Mon & Thu)

• List of steps necessary to prepare preliminary proceedings (formerly known as preliminary proceedings), i.e., no page numbers, indexes, wrapper material

• List and description of scripts to run to create the final proceedings– (Thu) A number of script

issues were discussed– (Thu) Use WGET instead of

browser for various tasks

• Publishing on JACoW– Technical requirements of

papers– Second stage: edit JACoW

home page to add links to new proceedings

– Revised JACoW home page with new drop-down lists of proceedings by conference

– Code listing of search engine interface

• (Thu) Open Archive and SPIRES citation data– SPMS URLs will generate

data– Common set of keywords

among all conferences. Library data package needs writing!


Post-Conference Feedback to the JACoW Repository – Christine PJG

• Aims• Data to repatriate• Search/Edit screen• Question for Matt: Would the data be repatriated

postconference to the JACoW central repository and be available in the future in the profiles repository for new conferences, or would it be synchronized to conferences already using copies of the repository?

• Answer: Need to query central repository through that conference to obtain this information. Information is there, a page needs to be written to access it.


SPMS Development

• Number of modules possible– Registration, Receipts, Badges (attached code, e.g.

Jeff Patton’s PAC code?)– Schedule export– Mailing label generation– Repository search

• Modularisation of SPMS

• Programming effort needed!


SPMS Documentation (Christine)

• SPMS User Manual uses DTree layout– http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/jacow/SPMS

/Manual/defaultnew.html– Naomi and Dan should write up the registration

module documentation– Links to this week’s seminars on the SPMS

documentation site– Should be a manual of the present state of the

website– (also Refereeing module documentation)


SPMS Character Problems (John)

• Character sets are implemented as best as possible in the production repository

• Unsolved (unsolvable?) problem with user data entry– Errors must be amended manually– Volker’s XML scripts can search for unusual

characters, and will display in ISO-LATIN1


Brainstorming- Presentation Types

• Lots of discussion about the reclassification of presentations– Automatic conversion of oral->poster– Generation of programme codes

• Comments– Need to be able to split a session across rooms– Need to be able to split a classification/sub-classification to

allow them to be split across sessions or days

• Demo of issues was done• Action Christine to liaise with Matt to sort out table

names


Poster Numbering/Village System

• Numbering works to group posters by same institute– Sort by affiliation & presenter/primary name

• Can manually adjust, but be careful afterwards!

• There is a general problem with disjointed authors – group by subject or group by person– Main hierarchies should be preserved, e.g. major

topics (main sub), affiliation– Then manual fix of disjoints across room


InDiCo

• Related product to SPMS– Powerful system for running a conference

• For CERN-sponsored conferences

– Has different focus to SPMS (presentation vs. publication), but has many of the same functions as SPMS

• Registration• Scheduling• Contribution upload• Contribution download• Offline website creation


Tue Afternoon – New SPMS Functionality

• Proposed Method for Invited Talks– Submit Proposal

• Proposer, Title, Speaker(s) (primary & alternative), Comments, Classification– Comment Proposal– Add Proposed Speakers– Merge of duplicate proposals– Report/Review – data extraction– Accept/Reject – done by Session Chair/Conf. Admin. (green/red dot?)– Select Speaker – done by Session Chair/Conf Admin. (green/red dot?)– (Log)

• Need new roles– Programme Committee Member, who can submit & comment– Proposed Speaker

• When needed– PAC07 (needed March 06?); build on experience from Linac06 (PAC07 meets

March/April next year)


Credit Card Data/Processing

• Who gets access to the credit card data?– DB Admin can always change roles – trust him!– Special role for only finance people? – policy needs deciding

• Registration people do not necessarily need to see data

• Forwarding of billing request and transaction ID stamp to a 3rd-party payment provider is much better– Essentially store transaction ID instead of credit card number; payment

provider takes on risk of storing/using credit card numbers– Previous setup of data ‘bounce-back’ (e.g. via URL) between payment

provider and e.g. SPMS– CCLRC Lab policy did not allow this for EPAC06

• Various payment options explored – fees were quite high >2% per transaction

• Would have required a major change to CCLRC financial operating system


Cloning of Conference Data

• Suggestion:– Store ‘template’ data to start off the structure of a

conference• Keywords• Registration Data (fields and layouts)• Invitee list?• Extract data such as what year/conference a speaker

made a presentation (repatriation)• Accommodation templates

– Keep only last conference?– Mix&match templates from several conferences


Flagging of Prize Entries• Identification (flag) for papers/presentations to be

entered into a prize competition• Suggestion:

– Radio buttons for submission of abstract into competition• Flag by submitting authors• Flag by expert• Report• Dump of Data – extract PDFs by judges; green/yellow dotted can be

viewed. Why not red dot/unprocessed viewable too? (in case of no edit)

• Flag_description, Flag1, Flag2 – process them first so that they can be judged during the conference. Late papers do not get entered.

• Need to summarise competition entries for judge– When they were entered– Whether they have been processed, so that no entries are missed


Customised Mailing Lists

• Suggestion: Customise email list by– Classification– Status– Presentation– Presentation Option/Type– Profile/Contribution/Expert/Role driven – need to

take care to appropriately use email lists

• Some technical issue with emailing attachments

• Attachment of CVs?


JACOW Status• Rapid growth of proceedings – up to 50 conferences soon

– Copyright agreement needed for some conferences

• Schools publications is in discussion• Various formalisations in progress

– Attendance– Budget allocations– Data security

• Indexing– Some papers don’t get indexed

• Some issues with DNS/Serving that have caused small outages• CERN has signed the Berlin declaration• Next year’s team meeting at CAT Indore?


JACOW Development and Relationships

• 11 conferences already have agreements• Some smaller conferences/workshops have been discussed• Discussion of Part.Accel. scanning is ongoing• CAS/USPAS lecture notes?

– Problems with old documents since they have varying source and format– Much of CAS is presentation material – hard to index– Input and resources required from schools

• JACOW/IEEE relationship– conflicting requirements– But they’re not hard constraints (e.g. JACOW compresses more to limit file size)– Paper size variation was a surprise to them– Future is to have multi-media content – watch this

• Subsetted fonts is no longer a problem in Acrobat 7• Data security of repository information

– Email addresses especially – these will not be published, but will be in OAI– Local repository copies are destroyed after conference

• (Thu) GPL Link


Conference Summaries• HB2006

– first ICFA workshop on JACOW– Is it legitimate to harvest email addresses from conference?

• ICFA BD Workshop on Future Light Sources– No abstract booklet– Plenaries in standard JACOW format– Presentations and WG summaries will be searchable and printable – new presentation type

for transparencies?• (Keynote, OO Impress, Word, ppt, ps, PDF, portrait/landscape) – publish to PDF. PDF source will

be allowed.• Define to delegates what source file formats are allowed

– Naming convention for presentations?– A workshop option in the conference configuration

• APAC2007– In Indore– Have learned from KEK experience– Will learn SPMS by getting involved with EPAC

• Cyclotrons 2007– In Taormina– Again, experience will be gained


Conference Summaries• DIPAC2005

– First to follow JACOW– Full SPMS, supported by J.Poole and M.Arena– Big advantage in using SPMS for affiliations etc.– Formatting problems reduced cf. LINAC04, but is still the largest error in a

paper– A number of script issues were discussed

• Missing contributions in LINAC04 were marked explicitly• FEL Conference Series

– Yearly, medium size – published in NIMA– 50 Acrobat licenses available simultaneously

• ICALEPCS - http://elise.epfl.ch/– Uses a different paper and submission engine– Only accepts PDF– Problem with printing – fonts problem?– Jewel box for CDs tend to break in the mail. Used card covers– Discussion of move to publish on DVD – wait until everyone has require drives

(next year or so)


Conference Summaries• ICAP – International Computational Accelerator Physics conference

– Variety of publishing methods; a bit of a mess– adopt JACOW– Chamonix October 2-6 2006– http://cern.ch/icap2006– Suggestion (J.Poole) for better vector plots

• Screen grabs done right now – depends on form of data plot (e.g. decimation of data)• Maybe Comp. Phys. community can help with a methodology.• Need instructions/hints in the submission instructions

– Probable problem with copyright forms• LINAC04

– Invitation only meant manual SPMS profile editing– ‘Traditional’ numbering meant manual numbering of papers– Problem with using Macs and Projector/Beamers (also see problem with Dells

with ATI Rage cards)• LINAC06

– Some editing help is to be requested


Conference Summaries• PAC 2005

– All papers processed but none QA’d at conference– 13 green but no IEEE copyright– Maybe update Mac instructions?– Some authors had problem uploading PS files– Shared network with the Internet Café was a problem– First use of registration module (have now developed better spec for EPAC)– Badges and payments was a problem

• PAC 2007– Website is already live, but skeletal http://pac07.lanl.gov/– Usual assistance needed from JACOW

• LINAC08, PAC09– Conference venues booked already!

• RuPAC – http://www.jinr.ru/RuPAC2004/– 170 out of 209 met JACOW requirements and were published– Contact with authors was primarily by email, which was a difficulty– Would like to use local SPMS for next conference


Conference Summaries

• EPAC– New accelerator prize for young scientists –

nominated by (young) peers– Continuity is key– Plone is used for EPAC06 website; editing

demonstration given


Conference Summary Summary

• Statistics are constant across conferences– Breakdown between Word/LaTeX– Cross-reference authors!

• 35 papers per editor per day is a good guide

• Networking– Need to make absolutely sure that the network

requirements will be met• Be clear with the IT staff

• And with the conference centre


JACOW Scanning Project

• PAC scanning is finished!• EPAC in progress• JACOW website automated statistics gathering

– But need careful criteria to get meaningful data

– Alternatives may be possible using a Log analyser, or using a Perl script that handles the downloading and does the download counting (no caching). This would not work on static files though. Some reworking of the file system would be needed (index file would be corrupted).

• Copyright issues to deal with


Schedule Builder

• Extend My Schedule and add iCal (.ics) export and subscription

• GPS coordinates are easy to add – why not?


Documentation and Template Review

• Make ‘recommended software’ into ‘required software’• A few other modifications suggested

– Times New Roman (Times New RomanPSMT) is mentioned as being allowed (as well as Times) to avoid confusion

– General Postscript drivers are often available, but not always– It’s now hard to put the wrong fonts into Word – Times is not in MS

Word ‘out of the box’. Metrics of different fonts are slightly different• Old template versions to be discontinued• Some British/US English usage differences – doesn’t matter?• MathType is useful for editors to have – makes editing easier

– JACOW purchase?• Some templates don’t use the defined Styles in areas they

should – these should be made consistent• No break of Figures across half columns (word-wrapping)


KEK Mirror Site• A good fraction of the traffic is generated by search

engines (~35%)• Using an unusual HTTP server (Russian code) lessens

the chance of security breaches• Mirroring is done by downloading site and replicating

– Now only changed sections are downloaded• Issues

– Use of same search engines– Additions to keyword list– Change logs– Use absolute links carefully– Would like log list of conference files delivered, to gain

complete picture of downloads


Acrobat 7 and Distiller• Acrobat 7 Developments

– V4: Tagged PDF for document text flow (and accessibility). Multicolumn a problem.

– V6: Retain layers (professional)– V6: Active multimedia embedding– V6: PDF Optimiser– V6/V7: Invasive installation (toolsets in other applications)– V7: New functionality focuses on review (and security), editing and prepress –

different split between Prof. & Reader– V7: Support for layers for engineering use– V7: PDF/X and PDF/A support, e.g. http://www.pdf-x.com/ and

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000125.shtml – V7: Bug fixes of v6.0.– V7: Some OCR features of Acrobat Capture now available in v7. (but Capture

was a free plugin before)– V7: Different availability on different OSes.

• OS Requirements for Reader are strict (modern PCs) and limited


Distiller 7 Developments

• Distiller 7 Developments:– Watched folders (powerful but licensing restrictions

– need Distiller Server)

• Distiller 7 Settings:– V7 Needs further research – use PAC’05 final .ps

files to look at viewing speed and file size– V7 ‘Standard’ gives bad print output. Also other

default profiles.– Possible problem with embedding OpenType fonts.


Edit, Versioning & CD Standards

• PitStop Server:– The server can automate many tasks we need for JACOW

• Needs some configuration• Still needs manual editing at the end

– Was used for PAC05• Very useful for reducing file sizes for CD• Different file sizes on JACOW and CD

• Version to be Used:– Move to Acrobat/Distiller 7– Move compatibility to Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4) – driven by support level across

platforms• ISO9660 Joliet is the most compatible standard for CD production, and

should continue to be used.– Should also use ‘Hybrid’ extension to allow double-clicking of files on MacOS.

JACOW CDs are usually tight on space, but this extension is lightweight.– Other formats (e.g. DVD) are extra at the discretion of the conference


Fonts

• Embedding of fonts is an ongoing problem– Often get subset (but don’t worry)– Old Type 1 fonts get substituted (e.g. Times!)– A big problem with font licensing and permissions

– need to start from the ground up. Don’t bother with a license

– OpenType will make things worse

• Type 3 no longer a problem

• When editing text, use the source document


Security – Hardware/Software/Data

• Hardware usually no problem• Software carefully patched and configured

– Close all the holes, Oracle is well-known• Firewall + ports• Passwords• Patches• Authentication (use SSL)

• SPMS Passwords– Readable by admin so that delegates could be told– Better changeable (reset) but not readable– Get rid of passphrase– New password process:

• Method 1: Request sends email with clickable link to reset profile password (authentication is via predefined email address)

• Method 2: administrator can reset and user enters new password at administrator seat (authentication is via face-to-face). Confirmation email (without password) is sent.

• Data Security Laws have to be followed– Might have to delete a profile, but probably not the paper – perhaps the name and

affiliation alone can be kept (this may not be personal data)– Opt-in information must be given to all – could be done at the JACOW repository


Next SPMS Release• Install script ports• Payment failed functionality• Search on Referee Status• Search on Profiles -> Export (CSV/Excel)• Keywords <-> DB• Multi-currency registration• Email headers in ASCII• Turn off auto poster numbering• Village system numbering parameter• Proposed speakers; roles; functions• Cloning registration, invitees• Dynamic attributes for the abstracts

(abstract flags) – PRSTAB, students, and sorting of them

• Current edit (dot) status on the abstract search report

• Language pack compatibility for Oracle – release notes

– FAQ/Wiki in documentation

• Expand session chair email utility to cover all experts

• Create a role-driven email utility• Remove the passphrase and replace with

new methods• Registration receipt and invoice printing

function, badge printing• Personal scheduler download to PDA• Mailing label generation• Repository archive search and report on

repatriated data• User print of PDF• Author submit of PDF as source file (for

workshop transparencies) – turn on/off ability by session

• Refereeing module: upload marked-up PDF (for refereeing)

– Dot masking when refereeing– Search ref/edit status of papers, and stats– Master status report – sort order on ref

status report


SPMS Dev. Schedule• Conference/DB Dev Schedule:

– 2xICFA Workshops (May)• 1. PDF upload• 1. Install script ports• 1. Payment failed• 1. Registration receipts

– EPAC (June)• 2. Proposed speakers (needed

March)• 2. Abstract flags• 2. PDA Download• 2. Role-driven email• 3. Auto poster numbering turn off• 3. Village system num. params

– LINAC• 2. Mailing labels (needed soon)• 4. Keywords <->DB

– FEL (August)• 4. Refereeing Status• 4. Refereeing module changes• 4. Email headers in ASCII• 4. User print PDF• 4. Other refereeing items• 4. Session chair email

– ICAP (October)– PAC 2009

• 5. Multi-currency

jacow team meeting summary of meeting hywel owen and cathy eyberger

Documents

spms files

abstract submission

new mexico

new profilewhat

list of files

new authorabstracts

historyproposed workflow

contributions paper