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SLAC Library and Preprints |
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Birth of SPIRES |
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Development of “Remote SPIRES” |
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Integration with WWW |
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SLAC Library starts |
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Louise Addis and her mission |
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"to actively and promptly acquire preprints
in high energy physics, catalog preprints fully (and promptly), and include
every author no matter how many there are”. |
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Unique needs of particle physics researchers |
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Hundreds of authors |
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Fast title and text searching |
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Needs constantly changing |
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1969, development begins on SPIRES |
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1970’s, SPIRES-HEP database begins |
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Best estimate was for max of 5,000 records |
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1990 HEP passes 200,000 |
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Now have over 476,000 records |
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Importance and value of HEP well known |
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SPIRES access limited to SLAC logins |
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or to printed/mailed index listings |
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Opening local accounts for HEP access |
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Library sponsoring many non-SLAC users |
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SPIRES use expanding to institutional data |
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Local demand for institutional data lookups |
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Birth of “Remote SPIRES” |
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SPIRES syntax somewhat awkward |
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IBM Mainframe was foreign system |
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Remote login not supported by BITNET |
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IBM Mainframe not on network that allowed remote
login |
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-> select hep |
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-Command logging in effect for this subfile |
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-> find author addis |
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-Result: 8 DOCUMENTS |
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-> sequence date |
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-Stack: 8 DOCUMENTS |
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-> type |
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Allowed “instant messages” to institutional data |
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Expanded to include HEP |
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Expanded to include BITNET sites |
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Expanded to include e-mail queries - “QSPIRES” |
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Qspires find author addis (seq date using brief |
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Binlist addis |
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Qspires name addis (in binlist |
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BITNET and e-mail access to SPIRES is great
success |
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Request for local accounts dropped |
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SLAC required registration to QSPIRES |
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Paul Ginsparg starts e-print archive
TeX source documents |
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Announced & distributed by listserv on
internet |
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Reference added to SLAC database |
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Successful beyond the wildest of dreams |
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Used from 663 nodes |
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in 44 countries |
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~5,000 registered users |
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~10,000 request/month |
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Large catalog of physics papers |
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SPIRES – quick searching/retrieval |
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Large world wide user base |
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E-prints – full text of papers |
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Remote access via BITNET & e-mail |
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Minor changes to www cgi scripts |
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Full access to the library almost immediately
available |
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SPIRES procedures easily modified to add html |
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Migrated SPIRES to Unix |
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Original Remote SPIRES code still in use |
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Processing over 600,000 request/month |
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HEP has over 476,000 record |
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SPIRES compiled for IBM mainframe |
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Emulation code for Macintosh |
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Compiled by Paul to run on NeXT |
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First demo on NeXT doing NFS mount |
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Now on Sun machine still using emulation of IBM
code |
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Notes
