E-Print Archives

该奖项将支持软件开发工作，与主要科学团体密切联系，将扩大使用并提高主要科学预印本存档系统的有效性，并专注于设计，实施和纳入新的创新工具，用于研究结果的电子通信。 此外，还将向其他社区提供新的档案。 在过去的两年里，开发了一种强大的新工具来交换和处理科学信息。 洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的理论部门已经开发并实施了一个“电子印刷档案”系统，用于分发、存档和搜索科学预印本。 到目前为止，已经为12个科学学科建立了电子印刷档案，并迅速成为他们所服务的社区信息交换的主要手段。 该系统由洛斯阿拉莫斯的粒子理论小组以“家庭手工业”模式作为社区服务来运作。 该提案的主要研究者Paul Ginsparg基本上全权负责软件/硬件维护以及用户支持。 鉴于其对所服务的研究社区的重要性，电子印刷系统项目现在需要长期稳定。 因此，该奖项将使其能够转移到一个计算机人员团队，以保证其可靠性和发展，特别是将其置于坚实的技术支持基础上。

This award will support a software development effort that, in close liaison with major scientific communities, will expand the use and increase the effectiveness of a major scientific preprint archiving system, and focus on the design, implementation, and incorporation of new, innovative tools for electronic communication of research results. Moreover new archives will be made available to other communities. During the past two years a powerful new tool has been developed for exchange and processing of scientific information. The Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed and implemented an "e-Print Archive" system for the distribution, archiving, and searching of scientific preprints. Thus far, e-Print Archives have been set up for twelve scientific disciplines, and are rapidly becoming the primary means of information exchange in the communities they serve. The system has been operated as a community service in a "cottage industry" mode by the particle theory group at Los Alamos. The Principal Investigator on this proposal, Paul Ginsparg, has had essentially full responsibility for software/hardware maintenance as well as user support. Given its importance to the research communities it serves, the e-Print system project now needs long-term stability. Consequently, this award will allow it to be transferred to a team of computer personnel that will guarantee its reliability and development, and in particular to be put on a firm technical support basis.