Use of the WWW as a collaborative tool in a large HEP collaboration
- G. Bower, R. Dubois, A.S. Johnson, L. Moss, J. Perl
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- M. Langston
- University of Oregon
- E. Weiss
- University of Washington
Abstract
As the phenomenal growth of the WWW continues it is easy to view it
purely as a tool for PR and advertising, and to forget its roots as
a collaborative tool for HEP research. The SLD
collaboration has made
extensive use of WWW in this latter role, using it to allow collaborators
to sign up for shifts, to monitor physics data-taking in near real time, and
as a tool to educate and inform collaborators. By their nature such tools
are accessible to all collaborators wherever they are located.
In this talk we will describe our current system and comment on its
effectiveness,
and discuss possible enhancements based on forthcoming
more powerful web browsers.
The above abstract has been submitted to the
CHEP 95 conference.
TonyJ