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JACoW Sustainability

JACoW 2017 Pre-Team Meeting

Why

  • Risks to JACoW were analysed in 2010 and 2016
  • Identify JACoW's aims and goals and evaluate the probability that they will not be achieved

Probability P

RiskAssigned for
1Unlikely, <10%
2Possible, <20% to 50%
3Likely, >60%
4Highly probable, >80%

Impact I

RiskAssigned for
1Negligible Impact
2Moderate impact - delay on delivery
3Major impact on delivery of objective - delay and/or additional resource requirement
4Severe impact leading to partial delivery and/or additional resource requirement
5Catastrophic impact - failure to reach goal

JACoW's Aims and Objectives

  • The goals listed on the website are:
    • Publish high-quality sets of proceedings with access through the custom interface.
    • Provide long-term archival storage to ensure longevity and access to publication data.
    • Train and educate authors and editors.
    • Provide a repository of profiles.
    • Provide support for conference organisers.
    • Publish conference metadata for open archives.
    • Maintain a set of user profiles for accelerator conferences.

Roles

  • JACoW Chairs [Chr]
  • JACoW Coordinator [Crd]
  • JACoW Board of Directors [JBoD]
  • JACoW webmaster (proceedings at CERN) [WebP]
  • JACoW webmaster (info at Elettra) [WebI]
  • JACoW website content manager [WebC]
  • Repository manager [Rep]
  • SPMS regional support managers [RSM1,2,3]
  • SPMS developers [Dev1,2,3]
  • JPSP developer [JPS]
  • Editor/conference tools developer [CnfDev]

Activities and Functions

  • Provide and maintain the proceedings website
  • Publish new proceedings as soon as possible
  • Run the collaboration
  • Report to Stakeholders
  • Provide and maintain the author and team websites
  • Provide and maintain the repository
  • Provide and maintain the SPMS
  • SPMS-Indico merger
  • Provide and maintain JPSP
  • Develop new tools for editors and authors

Infrastructure and resources

  • CERN webserver [WebCERN], KEK mirror [WebKEK]
  • Search engine [SRCH]
  • Oracle at CERN, FNAL and KEK and support people [ORACERN, ORAFNAL, ORAKEK]
  • Chair, deputy, coordinator, repository manager etc. - time [Tim]
  • Team members time and travel [Tim-Trav]
  • Conference proceedings teams [Eds]

Risk Analysis (2017)

FunctionAssociated RolesResourcesProbabilityImpactRisk
JACoW (proc)WebPSRCH, Web*155
Add new procs.WebPEds, Web*248
Run collaborationJBoDTim-Trav339
JACoW (info)WebiWeb*144
RepositoryRepORA*224
SPMSRep, RSM*, Dev*ORA*3412
SPMS-Indico MergeDev, Rep, JPSTim111
ToolsCnfDevTim-Trav133
JPSPJPSTim244
Editor EducationCnfDevTim-Trav236
Personnel to Educate Ed.CnfDevTim-Trav248
Author EducationCnfDevEds, Tim224

Risk Analysis (2016)

FunctionAssociated RolesResourcesProbabilityImpactRisk
JACoW (proc)WebPSRCH, Web*155
Add new procs.WebPEds, Web*3412
Run collaborationJBoDTim-Trav248
JACoW (info)WebiWeb*144
RepositoryRepORA*236
SPMSRep, RSM*, Dev*ORA*339
SPMS-Indico MergeDev, Rep, JPSTim313
ToolsCnfDevTim-Trav236
JPSPJPSTim236
Editor EducationCnfDevTim-Trav236
Personnel to Educate Ed.CnfDevTim-Trav248
Author EducationCnfDevEds, Tim326

2016/17 Comparison

FunctionAssociated RolesResourcesRisk 2016Risk 2017
JACoW (proc)WebPSRCH, Web*55 
Add new procs.WebPEds, Web*128
Run collaborationJBoDTim-Trav89
JACoW (info)WebiWeb*44 
RepositoryRepORA*64
SPMSRep, RSM*, Dev*ORA*912
SPMS-Indico MergeDev, Rep, JPSTim31
ToolsCnfDevTim-Trav63
JPSPJPSTim64
Editor EducationCnfDevTim-Trav66 
Personnel to Educate Ed.CnfDevTim-Trav88 
Author EducationCnfDevEds, Tim64
Total7968
Average6.585.67

Conclusions... (2016)

  • ☼► publication of new proceedings: higher
  • ▲ JPSP-related
  • ▲ SPMS-related
  • ▼ running the collaboration (BoD structure)
  • ∆ JACoW Experts availability

Conclusions... (2017)

  • ▼ publication of new proceedings: lower
  • ▼ Indico-SPMS merge project lower: promising
  • ▲ Running the collaboration: higher!
  • ▲ Developing the SPMS: higher!