# Presentation: 918609

## eHarvesting using SPIRES

- Heath O’Connell/Travis Brooks
- Fermilab/SLAC
- _[http://library.fnal.gov](http://library.fnal.gov/)_
- _[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires](http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires)_

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## The SPIRES Database: History

- Started in 1968 at SLAC to record HEP preprints.
- Searchable by author, title, report number, ...
- Tracks number of citations to articles
- From 1974 DESY added published articles.
- Matched them with the preprints.
- 1985: database is searchable by email.
- 1991: database is first website in U.S.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## The SPIRES Database: Today

- 2005: 600k records, 1M searches/month, five labs contributing data.
- Partnership between SLAC, Fermilab, and DESY.
- Other contributions from JLab, Kyoto U., KEK, Durham U., IHEP (Moscow), and physicists around the world
- Primarily used by HEP and other scientists

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Fermilab and SPIRES

- All Fermilab documents are placed in SPIRES.
- Makes them easy to find.
- Makes it easy to prepare reports for the directorate.
- _[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires](http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires)_

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Published Experimental Papers 

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Generating XML for OSTI

- SPIRES can produce output in any desired format.
- This includes OSTI XML.
- OSTI can harvest data, simply by sending a search over the web to SPIRES.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## XML Example

- <rec>
-   <accession_num>6137563</accession_num>
-   <title>Revolutions and revelations</title>
-   <author>Quigg, Chris; /Fermilab;</author>
-   <subj_category>72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS</subj_category>
-   <subj_keywords>Phenomenology-HEP, Theory-HEP</subj_keywords>
- .....

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Advantages to OSTI

- OSTI automatically gets any updates to the record, such as publication note.
- A standard place to retrieve reports from multiple labs: Fermilab, SLAC, JLab? (mostly HEP/Nucl)
- With a Standard XML format

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Advantages to Lab

- SPIRES collaborative effort allows one to find papers that authors have not submitted to Tech Pubs Office (“leaks”).
- Other Labs contribute to enhancement of your records: Journal information, experiments, conferences, etc.
- No need to develop a new system for eharvest.
- SPIRES ensures high visibility for your papers.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Problems with Duplicates

- When OSTI harvests from SPIRES (or any site) it can build up duplicates at OSTI’s site.
- One might wish to narrow harvest only to new documents (easy to do in SPIRES).
- Alternatively, pre-existing OSTI docs could be tagged in SPIRES.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005

## Summary

- SPIRES offers an easy way to make your labs’ papers highly visible.
- Makes it simple to find “leaks”.
- Enables you to quickly generate Publications reports for your Directorate.
- Gives you a straightforward way to set up eharvesting with OSTI.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 21 April 2005