<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">Hi all,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">As either official LHC experiment contacts for Rivet analysis submission, or prominent submitters, I want to draw your attention to an important update to our submission guide, here: </font><span style="font-size:large"><a href="https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/SubmittingAnalyses">https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/SubmittingAnalyses</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Graeme watt from HepData pointed out that we didn't make any explicit reference to HepData in our guidelines, and I think the original vision of Rivet being "synchronisable" with HepData (thus picking up dataset bugfixes as and when they happen) got lost somewhere in the last 10 years of Rivet's existence.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">We have many cases where the reference YODA file in an experiment Rivet analysis either does not use the same dataset IDs, etc. as in the HepData record for that analysis, or even cases where the numerical data exists in Rivet but not HepData!! Both these are sad, for different reasons: to make Rivet scalable as the LHC anaysis preservation toolkit, we need to divide and conquer, with HepData in charge of the data curation and Rivet the code/logic part. Ideally we'd be resyncing Rivet with HepData every time we make a release, but at the moment that's not possible and we need to get there somehow.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">So to clarify, HepData is absolutely the primary repository for LHC "plot data" of the sort used by Rivet. And please make sure that the Rivet routines you submit use the YODA files exported by HepData: with the new sandboxing/preview features in <a href="http://hepdata.net">hepdata.net</a> it should be possible to get these files before the public release of the analysis... I'm sure Graeme and the Rivet team will all be happy to help if necessary.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks for all your hard work, and best wishes :-)</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Andy</div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow<br>Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow<br></div>
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