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CERN Tuesday, April 15, 2003

ETT-DH Group

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2Mick Draper Tuesday, April 15, 2003

What do we really do ?

• The name Document Handling suggests something like a mail office. But names don’t always tell the whole story…..

• We are in the information business

– We help people across the lab to produce and disseminate information

– There is no point in producing a document (or any other kind of information) if no-one knows it exists or if no-one know where to get it.

– With CDS we have a world-class tool for information management which allows everyone to share in the rich material that the DH group (and the rest of CERN) produces

– Using CDS we have built other tools and applications which I will try to mention and demo.


ETT-DH Group Structure

Group Leader

Printshop Photo & Audiovisual Information Publishing CDS


How it all fits together

CDS

Bulletin

DTP++

Audio-visual

Photo Service

WebcastsVideos

Courses

Articles

photosPostersFlyers

BrochuresReports

Printshop


Highlights

• In this short presentation, I can’t possibly mention everyone nor all our activities

• So I will try to pick out some highlights ….


Audio-video Services

• Video News was started during 2002

– Now on to its 4th edition

• The webcast server is now the de facto streaming server for CERN. The impressive usage statistics for this relatively new service in 2002 were:

– About 4,000 distinct hosts/clients per month

– About 8,000 videos viewed per month

– About 500 GB net traffic per month


Photo Services

• Almost all photographs are taken without film

• We now have a formal arrangement to photograph all important moments during the construction of ATLAS

We now are building up a ‘portfolio’ of impressive images from ATLAS …

• The CERN Photo Library is popular !

4,500 JPEGs downloaded per month.

In total, 9,793 distinct hosts/clients downloaded 30 GB of JPEG photos in 2002


Printshop

• Not the most glamorous perhaps, but…….

– There is a big effort to reduce budgets across the lab and often printing is one of the first economies

– the Printshop has managed to maintain its turnover, due to:

A continued reputation for excellent service and the high quality of its end product

• Managed to renew all the hi-tech printing equipment during 2002

– We now have better equipment with new functionality (e.g. high speed scanning to PDF)

– At a net decrease in cost to CERN


Information Publishing

• Desktop publishing++ (need a new name !)

– Here we create the material which ends up in the printshop and also on the web

– We have a small team who work on making sure that the CERN image, as seen by the outside world, is attractive …

• The e-bulletin, launched in 2002, now has about 500 subscribers

– we regularly receive mails asking us to stop sending paper bulletins !!

– The e-bulletin is an excellent example of how to hide a database behind a user-friendly web interface.


CDS

• The scope of CDS has grown impressively as seen by the number and variety of collections …

• Usage statistics from 2002

– More than 193,500 distinct hosts/clients (+24% from 2001)

– More than 1,500 "visits" and 4,500 searches per day

– More than 50,000 "hits" per day - 70% from outside

– About 5.2 GB net traffic per day.

• A new super fast “Google-like” search interface in test since August 2002…


CDS

• New collections are being added all the time:

– Pauli manuscript and biographical collections

– EP Electronic Systems Support Group internal documentation

– Video archives

Historic clips and films have been digitized and are available from CDS – see in Bulletin 13/2003


CDS Agenda

• Another success story ! CDS Agenda was developed for ATLAS to allow them manage their collaboration meetings

• A new version of CDS Agenda released

– Version 4.2, released on 14th March 2003, includes many new features:

Open architecture encourages 3rd party developments like one in EP


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CDS Collaborations

• Since the creation of CDS Ware (CDS packaged for distribution) we have many more contacts with external institutes.

• The University of California, San Diego, one of our first customers continues to use CDS.

• More recently…

– The Citations from all document metadata held in CDS has been made available to Old Dominium University (USA) as part of ARCHON project

“A Digital Library that federates Physics collections with varying degrees of metadata richness”

– RERO (Réseau des bibliothèques romandes)

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