STIP Managers Teleconference
January 11, 2006
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
2006 STIP Meeting (Kathy
Waldrop): The 2006 STIP Meeting will be held at the
Four Points by Sheraton Downtown Chicago
(http://www.starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints/search/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=1592).
We checked a number of downtown hotels and this hotel could accommodate us for
the Week of April 24, and gave us the best price and is fortunately a great
location. We will begin our meetings the afternoon of April 25, starting
with a STIP Orientation, followed by a DOE federal-employee-only meeting and a
DOE contractor-only meeting. This way, Tuesday am travel will be possible
for some attendees. There are 15 rooms only for Monday night right now,
but more may be added if necessary. The STIP Meeting itself will be held
Wednesday and Thursday; 40 rooms have been reserved for Tues-Thursday
nights. Some spots are available for Friday and Saturday. The per
diem is $152/night for Chicago;
details will be on the STIP Home Page. The number of the hotel is
1-800-368-7764. Make sure you mention the DOE STIP Meeting to get the government
rate. The deadline
for reservations is March 14. Parking at the hotel is $28/day for
self-parking; valet parking is$38/day.
NOTE: For individuals flying to Chicago, either O’Hare or Midway
airports are options. They are only about five minutes different in terms of
time to our hotel. Both airports have many options for public transportation to
the hotel. Jannean Elliott will add links on the STIP Home Page later today.
Argonne may offer a tour featuring the
Advanced Photon Source, depending on interest. ANL will look into
transportation options. If you are interested, let Sharon
Jordan know. A tour would last about an hour, and it
could take place Tuesday morning. Let OSTI know by Thursday of next week.
Argonne is about 40 minutes south of the
hotel, so the entire tour would take about three hours.
OSTI would love to hear from potential presenters.
Contact OSTI with your ideas. Potential topics may include: legacy documents;
site updates; etc.
Harvesting (Jannean Elliott): Some changes in E-Link caused a few
harvesting problems last fall. It’s been a struggle to resolve them, but they’re
now solved. Right now, Idaho,
SLAC, and Sandia are successfully testing. That makes nine labs that are
harvesting. Non-harvesters are invited to contact Jannean to get started.
UTF-8 character encoding will be the standard for special characters
outside the ASCII character set.
Science Research
Connection (SRC) –
(Kathy Waldrop/Judy Gilmore): Some sites are heavy users of SRC; others are not. More
information about the product will be sent out to encourage more use of SRC.
For documents requested via SRC that currently reside at OSTI in hard copy,
OSTI is contacting the submitting site requesting secondary sensitivity reviews
based on post-9/11.
Miscellaneous (All):
·
The
Science Information Advisory Board is looking at creating some new directives;
they are almost ready for RevCom. Sharon
will send us information before it goes to RevCom for the review and comment
period. We expect that there will be an overarching policy Order; nothing
earth-shattering, but it will boost the importance of STI within DOE.
·
There
will be a Science.gov poster session at the upcoming AAAS meeting. Walt
Warnick will be a speaker at the meeting. It’s in St. Louis this year. Science.gov 3.0 was released last fall.