A Web-Based Submission System for Meeting Abstracts
Wang Hu · 1999
As one of the services provided to AIP’s Member Societies, we publish program books and abstract books for meetings sponsored by the societies. In this paper, we describe a Web-based client-server abstract submission system. It uses HTML forms to gather and validate user input of abstracts and related information, provide on-line proof before ocially submitting, and store the input in LATEX files and a database. From the publishing production’s point of view, the major benefit of such a system is the greatly improved quality of well-structured submissions, which makes it possible to streamline the whole production cycle. Some possibilities with its integration into a database publishing system are briefly discussed afterwards.