JACoW, a Collaboration Serving the Accelerator Community
John Poole, Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz · International Linear Collider · 2004
The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website started from an idea to publish particle accelerator conference proceedings on the WWW and has grown into an international collaboration supported by ten conference series. Through attendance at Steering Committee meetings and Team Meetings and through active participation in the work of the editorial teams of sister conferences, people with the responsibility for the production of the electronic versions of conferenceproceedingscome togetherto learnfromthe experience of colleagues, andto developcommonapproaches to problems. Theactivities of the collaborationcoverall aspects of electronic publication and have recently extended into conference scientific programme management. This paper reviews the history of the collaboration, describes some of the highlights in the activities during the life of the collaboration and presents the current status and future plans.