Global HEP Search Project

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Global HEP Search Project

• With this system on-line high energy physics information easily searchable...
  • Multiple formats indexed (HTML, text, ps, pdf, etc.)
  • Full functionality searching
• Collaborations and sites currently indexed
  • Babar, DAH, SDSS, DART, CMS (US), DZero
  • Carnegie Mellon, Texas Tech, U of Michigan, Fermilab
• Adding a Site to Global HEP Search
  • Make an html page for the Global HEP Search
  • Schedule and create a collection for the site
• Offload indexing to remote site “partners”
• Contact Jeff Dingbaum, dingbaum@hep.net for details

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• WYSIWYG - about a dozen formats supported thru gateway filters
  • A little slower to index
  • Examples - Word, WordPerfect, Framemaker, Excel...
• Postscript Is a heavily-used document interchange standard in HEP
  • Postscript files distilled into PDF before indexing