A Web portal for the Engineering and Equipment Data Management System at CERN

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series 2010-04, Vol.219 (4), p.042056
• Main Authors: Tsyganov, A, Petit, S, Martel, P, Milenkovic, S, Suwalska, A, Delamare, C, Widegren, D, Amérigo, S Mallón, Pettersson, T
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: CERN; Content management systems; Data collection; Data management; Large Hadron Collider; Particle physics; Physics; Project management; Search engines; Web portals
• ISSN: 1742-6596; 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/219/4/042056

CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, located in Geneva – Switzerland, has recently started the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 km particle accelerator. The CERN Engineering and Equipment Data Management Service (EDMS) provides support for managing engineering and equipment information throughout the entire lifecycle of a project. Based on several both in-house developed and commercial data management systems, this service supports management and follow-up of different kinds of information throughout the lifecycle of the LHC project: design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning data, maintenance and more. The data collection phase, carried out by specialists, is now being replaced by a phase during which data will be consulted on an extensive basis by non-experts users. In order to address this change, a Web portal for the EDMS has been developed. It brings together in one space all the aspects covered by the EDMS: project and document management, asset tracking and safety follow-up. This paper presents the EDMS Web portal, its dynamic content management and its "one click" information search engine.