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Data Preservation at LEP
The four LEP experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL successfully recorded
e+e- collision data during the years 1989 to 2000. As part of the ordinary
evolution in High Energy Physics, these experiments can not be repeated and
their data is therefore unique. This article briefly reviews the data
preservation efforts undertaken by the four experiments beyond the end of data
taking. The current status of the preserved data and associated tools is
summarised.Comment: 7 pages, contribution to proceedings of the "First Workshop on Data
Preservation and Long Term Analysis in HEP
The case for preserving our knowledge and data in physics experiments
This proceeding covers tools and technologies at our disposal for scientific
data preservation and shows that this extends the scientific reach of our
experiments. It is cost-efficient to warehouse data from completed experiments
on the tape archives of our national and international laboratories. These
subject-specific data stores also offer the technologies to capture and archive
knowledge about experiments in the form of technical notes, electronic logs,
websites, etc. Furthermore, it is possible to archive our source code and
computing environments. The paper illustrates these challenges with experience
from preserving the LEP data for the long term.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Data Preservation in High Energy Physics - why, how and when?
Long-term preservation of data and software of large experiments and
detectors in high energy physics is of utmost importance to secure the heritage
of (mostly unique) data and to allow advanced physics (re-)analyses at later
times. Summarising the work of an international study group, motivation, use
cases and technical details are given for an organised effort to secure and
enable future use of past, present and future experimental data. As a practical
use case and motivation, the revival of JADE data and the corresponding latest
results on measuring in NNLO QCD are reviewed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; presentation given at the QCD10, Montpellier,
France, June 201
Status Report of the DPHEP Study Group: Towards a Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics
Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with
significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. An
inter-experimental study group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis
was convened as a panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators
(ICFA). The group was formed by large collider-based experiments and
investigated the technical and organisational aspects of HEP data preservation.
An intermediate report was released in November 2009 addressing the general
issues of data preservation in HEP. This paper includes and extends the
intermediate report. It provides an analysis of the research case for data
preservation and a detailed description of the various projects at experiment,
laboratory and international levels. In addition, the paper provides a concrete
proposal for an international organisation in charge of the data management and
policies in high-energy physics
DPHEP: From Study Group to Collaboration
The international study group on data preservation in high energy physics,
DPHEP, achieved a milestone in 2012 with the publication of its eagerly
anticipated large scale report, which contains a description of data
preservation activities from all major high energy physics collider-based
experiments and laboratories. DPHEP will evolve to a new collaboration
structure in 2013. The formation of the study group is described, as well as
some of the key messages from the report focussing on the physics case for the
preservation of high energy physics data and a description of the different
preservation models. Finally, the future working directions of the new
collaboration are outlined.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of a parallel talk given at EPS-HEP
2013, July, Stockholm as well as at DIS 2013, April, Marseille
Four Decades of Computing in Subnuclear Physics - from Bubble Chamber to LHC
This manuscript addresses selected aspects of computing for the
reconstruction and simulation of particle interactions in subnuclear physics.
Based on personal experience with experiments at DESY and at CERN, I cover the
evolution of computing hardware and software from the era of track chambers
where interactions were recorded on photographic film up to the LHC experiments
with their multi-million electronic channels
Living in Isolation: How language barriers shut immigrant New Yorkers out of critical City housing service
This report confirms that linguistically isolated households ii need greater access to housing services. Yet, these New Yorkers are limited in their ability to access city housing services because of language and cultural barriers. Our data also indicate that linguistically isolated New Yorkers have benefited far less from improved housing-complaint-collection processes than other New Yorkers. The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) -- the city agency that works to ensure that tenants live in safe and healthy housing -- has taken some steps to address these barriers. Our data suggest, however, that more needs to be done to improve access to housing services for linguistically isolated New Yorkers
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