Microwave Digital Library Status Report

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Microwave Digital Library Status Report

• AdCom Fall Meeting 2004
• - Luciano Boglione -

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Project Status

• Digital Archive 2003 project (1953-2003)
• Currently disks are being replicated (5,500
  journal 5,500 index disks)
• Shipment to IEEE around end of September/early
  October
• DA Project costs as estimated (18K 19K)
• Should be less than 45 of the budgeted cost!!!
• Please note that
• Dec 2003 J-LT issue (joined sponsorship) is
  included as requested
• Index and journal disks will be sold to members
• Lower number of disks requested reflects drop in
  MTT Societys membership
• Replication costs increase for orders of less
  than 5,000 disks

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Big issue came up!

• PDFs provided by IEL (IEEE) are created with
  settings that result in PDFs whose combined size
  exceed the capacity of the CDROM disk.
• This year we got around by down-sampling the
  figures trading off space with lower quality
  (150dpi vs. 300dpi)
• The index disk is also getting full
• In about 2 years!

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Journal disk

• OPTIONS
• Keep using 1 CDROM disks and downsample
• Use 2 CDROM disks and keep IEL quality
• Use 1 DVD disk and keep IEL quality

• CONS
• Figure quality is reduced
• Replication costs go up (2 disks vs. 1 disk to
  make and ship)
• DVD replication cost is 3X (1.29/DVD vs.
  0.40/CD)

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Index disk

• OPTIONS
• Use DVD
• Same look feel
• Freeze current index and start a new index
• Searches cannot span over full index

• CONS
• DVD costs more
• Searches cannot span over full index

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Moving forward - Options

• Do nothing
• Revisit in a couple of years what to do with the
  index disk
• Quality from now on will be affected
• Costs are kept low
• Quality papers can be downloaded from Xplore if
  available to user
• Move to DVDs
• DAs look and feel is kept the same
• 40 cost increase (relative to 2004)
• Is DVD technology perceived as widely available
  to MTT-S DA users?

• Mix DVDs and CDROM disks
• Same concern as in 2
• 30 cost increase (relative to 2004)
• Reissue DA on DVDs
• Only 3 disks may contain entire archive
• Go e-archive!
• Kill journal disk
• Use index DVD to point to Xplore
• DA is useful for searching the past, Xplore to
  search the future!
• Can this be accomplished?
• Is on-line access widely available?
• Use 1 DVD disk instead of 2 or more
• Costs may be comparable to current costs

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Action Items for AdCom

• Think what to do with the digital archive
• Discuss what you envision for DAs future
• Let me know by January AdCom meeting
• Thanks!

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Acknowledgment

• MTT 2004 president
• R.J. Trew
• Publication Committee Chair
• Samir El-Ghazaly
• IEEE
• Adam Philippides
• Pam Attanasio