Scientific Information Policy Board
The Scientific Information Policy Board (SIPB) is an inter-departmental body reporting to the Director for Research and Computing. It deals with any matters related to policies, strategies, and technology services related to the management of scientific information for the high-energy physics community.
The SIPB was established in 1990, and the mandate was updated in December 2022.
SIPB meetings
The SIPB typically meets two to three times per year upon invitation of its chair. Meeting details and minuteshave been available online since 1995 to the CERN community (login required).
Current members of the SIPB
Department representatives
- Michelangelo Mangano, TH (Chairman)
- Salomé Rohr, OSI (Secretary)
- Carlos Lourenço, EP (Chair CREB, EP)
- Jamie Boyd, EP (other LHC exp. + fixed targets experiments)
- Sergio Calatroni, TE
- Zaida Conesa del Valle and Ralf Averbeck, EP (ALICE)
- Andrea Giammanco, ACCU
- Marie-Helene Genest, EP (ATLAS)
- Magdalena Kowalska, EP (other small experiments)
- Detlef Küchler (BE)
- Ana Lopes, IR, DG, FAP, HR, IPT, SCE
- Chiara Mariotti, EP (CMS)
- Harvey Meyer, TH (incoming)
- Emilio Radicioni, ACCU
- Thierry Stora, SY
- Stefania Vecchi, EP (LHCb)
Ex-officio members
- German Cancio (IT, Collaborative Applications)
- Anne Gentil-Beccot (SIS, Open Science Operations)
- Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez (IT, Open Science)
- Micha Moskovic (SIS, INSPIRE)
- Olivia Mandica-Hart (SIS, Archives)
- Kamran Naim (SIS/CIO, Open Science Strategy)
- Salomé Rohr (SIS, SL Archives & Library)
- Harris Tzovanakis (SIS, SL Tools & Services)
- Jens Vigen (SIS, Publishing)
- Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (DRC, standing invitation)
CERN Objects Preservation Policy
Statement issued by the Scientific Information Policy Board on Monday 18 June 2007 and approved by the Director General.
CERN has a scientific and cultural heritage stretching back to the Organization’s foundation in 1954 and embodied not only in its scientific works, but also in its scientific instruments and other objects. These have been produced at CERN, as well as in collaborating institutes around the world, and many are of historical importance. Working with the originating institutes, it is CERN’s policy, within the available resources, to identify and preserve the most important of these for posterity, to put them on public display where possible at CERN, and to make them available on loan to science museums and scholars of the history of science. The body charged with selecting which objects to preserve is the SIPB, drawing on expert advice both from within and outside the Organization. Following preparation for use as display items by the technical Departments concerned, selected objects become the property of the CERN Communication group (DG-CO), which has responsibility for their management. For more information please contact library.desk@cern.ch
History of the SIPB
The Scientific Information Policy Board (SIPB) is the continuation of the Library Committee as of November 1989.
Library committee
The Library Committee was continued by the Scientific Information Policy Board as of November 1989.
Former Library committee and SIPB chairmen
- Lew Kowarski
- Brian Montague (ISR)
- Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (EP): 1978-1989
- Maurice Jacob (TH): 1989
- John Ellis (TH): 1990-1994
- Walter Blum (EP): 1994-1997
- Gabriele Veneziano (TH): 1997-1998
- Rudiger Voss (EP): 1998-2002
- Guido Altarelli (PH/TH): 2002-2006
- Gigi Rolandi (PH/EP): 2006-2017
The CERN Reports Editorial Board (CREB)
CREB was a separate committee until May 2004. From this date onwards CREB was made a sub-group of the SIPB, responsible for the oversight of issues related to the CERN Yellow Reports series.
Archive committee
The Archive Committee existed from 1989 to 2004.