INSPIRE
CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC are building INSPIRE, the next-generation High Energy Physics (HEP) information system, which will empower scientists with innovative tools for successful research at the dawn of an era of new discoveries.
INSPIRE combines the successful SPIRES database, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC, with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN. INSPIRE will be run by a collaboration of the four labs, and will interact closely with HEP publishers, arXiv.org, NASA-ADS, PDG, and other information resources.
How will adding Invenio technology improve upon SPIRES?
- Variety of search and display options
- Faster results
- Well-defined API for third parties to build new tools
- New features like tagging, author pages and more.
- Decades of trusted, curated content
- Experience managing a discipline wide information resource
- Close relationship with worldwide user community
Further Information
Talks, Papers, and other places where INSPIRE or related material has been discussed- Particle and Particle Astrophysics Information Resource Summits - a series of meetings wherein
INSPIRE and other projects are discussed by HEP information resource providers
including journal publishers, arXiv, ADS, PDG, SPIRES and others.
- First Summit InDiCo page (May 2007 at SLAC)
- Second Summit InDiCo Page(May 2008 at DESY)
- Third Summit InDiCo page(May 2009 at Fermilab)
- Original press release about the INSPIRE system
- Symmetry Breaking posting about INSPIRE
- Talk:Organizing a Research Community with SPIRES: Where Repositories, Scientists and Publishers Meet [pdf] given by Travis Brooks at Academic Publishing in Europe 2009
- Information Resources in High-Energy Physics: Surveying the Present Landscape and Charting the Future Course. by A. Gentil-Beccot, S. Mele, A. Holtkamp, H O'Connell, T. Brooks
- Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Vision and Projects from High-Energy Physics by R. Heuer, A. Holtkamp, and S. Mele
- Talk:Giving Researchers What they Want: SPIRES, High-energy physics and subject repositories [PDF] [mp4] by T. Brooks, at CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6)
- Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics: How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories.. by A. Gentil-Beccot, S. Mele, T. Brooks
Screenshots
Shots of completed features in an INSPIRE test system:- Front page
- Search Results (note SPIRES syntax...Google style also understood)
- Page for a paper
- Author Summary page (note affiliation history, topics of papers, citation summary)
- Citation page
Contacts
- Salvatore Mele (CERN)
- Annette Holtkamp (DESY)
- Heath O'Connell (Fermilab)
- Travis Brooks (SLAC)
