2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer - Revision history

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	[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports:_Info_Officer Link to 2015 Q1 Report]]		[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports:_Info_Officer Link to 2015 Q1 Report]]
	[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q3_Reports:_Information_Officer~~:_Info_Officer~~ Link to 2014 Q3 Report]]		[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q3_Reports:_Information_Officer Link to 2014 Q3 Report]]
	[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q1_Reports:_Info_Officer Link to 2014 Q1 Report]]		[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q1_Reports:_Info_Officer Link to 2014 Q1 Report]]
	[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2013Q3_Reports:_Information_Officer Link to 2013 Q3 Report]]		[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2013Q3_Reports:_Information_Officer Link to 2013 Q3 Report]]

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	The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. We employ a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).		The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. We employ a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).

	The Anthology now contains over 36,~~500~~ (up from 34,~~800~~ papers in the last report in ~~'15 Q3~~) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of ~~2016~~.		The Anthology now contains over 34,800 (up from 34,000 papers in the last report in Q1) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2015.

	We ~~assign~~ DOIs to our own materials ~~since 2014. This~~ year, ~~we will be working~~ towards ingesting other earlier materials before the migration from the courtesy DOI assignation from ACM (for pre-2012 materials). For reference, the ACL decided to create our own DOIs such that we could control where the DOIs resolved to, as earlier, ACM "owned" the DOI redirect, taking traffic from ACL to route to their ACM Portal digital library, in exchange for the cost of DOI assignation (US$1 per paper). With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 2K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles~~. For 2014/2015 we had to incur about ~1.5K for both years combined~~.		We have begun assigning DOIs to our own materials this year, starting with the 2014 materials and hopefully pushing towards the current timeline, before ingesting other earlier materials before the migration from the courtesy DOI assignation from ACM (for pre-2012 materials). For reference, the ACL decided to create our own DOIs such that we could control where the DOIs resolved to, as earlier, ACM "owned" the DOI redirect, taking traffic from ACL to route to their ACM Portal digital library, in exchange for the cost of DOI assignation (US$1 per paper). With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 2K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles.

	We now have semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We have begun to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.		We now have semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We have begun to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.
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	While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.		While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.

	Finally, we ~~recognise~~ that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. ~~The Exec accepted Min's resolution~~ to have a ~~steering committee deal with~~ the ~~oversight~~ of the Anthology. ~~Currently,~~ the ~~IO (Jing-Shin),~~ the ~~editor (Min) and~~ the ~~CL journal editor (Paola) serve on this committee~~. ~~The committee has not started~~ meeting ~~yet, but we envision it will meet soon after the winter teleconference, and be held twice yearly~~.		Finally, we recognize that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. It is of too much import to have a single editor be responsible for the policymaking of the Anthology. We hope the Exec will endorse the call for a steering committee to provide the necessary oversight for the Anthology. This is to be discussed during the executive meeting.

	'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

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	'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

	'''Plans.''' ~~With the work item of~~ DOI assignation ~~largely complete~~, a second thrust is to other forms of scientific knowledge that we are interested in archiving. These include software, datasets and videos. The procedures for integrating these with START and the submission process need to be worked out, and the space requirements for these services assessed. ~~Videos have been handled for ACL 2015~~, and integration of those from NAACL 2015 are underway by the NAACL organization. The compilation of the video to talk metadata mapping needs to be provided by the service that provides the video recording.		'''Plans.''' Aside from completing DOI assignation, a second thrust is to other forms of scientific knowledge that we are interested in archiving. These include software, datasets and videos. The procedures for integrating these with START and the submission process need to be worked out, and the space requirements for these services assessed. For the time being, we will concentrate on videos.

	A third thrust will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.		A third thrust will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.

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	'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

	'''Plans.''' ~~Aside from completing~~ DOI assignation, a second thrust is to other forms of scientific knowledge that we are interested in archiving. These include software, datasets and videos. The procedures for integrating these with START and the submission process need to be worked out, and the space requirements for these services assessed. ~~For~~ the ~~time being, we will concentrate on videos~~.		'''Plans.''' With the work item of DOI assignation largely complete, a second thrust is to other forms of scientific knowledge that we are interested in archiving. These include software, datasets and videos. The procedures for integrating these with START and the submission process need to be worked out, and the space requirements for these services assessed. Videos have been handled for ACL 2015, and integration of those from NAACL 2015 are underway by the NAACL organization. The compilation of the video to talk metadata mapping needs to be provided by the service that provides the video recording.

	A third thrust will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.		A third thrust will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.

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	The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. We employ a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).		The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. We employ a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).

	The Anthology now contains over 34,~~800~~ (up from 34,~~000~~ papers in the last report in Q1) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of ~~2015~~.		The Anthology now contains over 36,500 (up from 34,800 papers in the last report in '15 Q3) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2016.

	We ~~have begun assigning~~ DOIs to our own materials ~~this~~ year, ~~starting with the 2014 materials and hopefully pushing~~ towards ~~the current timeline, before~~ ingesting other earlier materials before the migration from the courtesy DOI assignation from ACM (for pre-2012 materials). For reference, the ACL decided to create our own DOIs such that we could control where the DOIs resolved to, as earlier, ACM "owned" the DOI redirect, taking traffic from ACL to route to their ACM Portal digital library, in exchange for the cost of DOI assignation (US$1 per paper). With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 2K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles.		We assign DOIs to our own materials since 2014. This year, we will be working towards ingesting other earlier materials before the migration from the courtesy DOI assignation from ACM (for pre-2012 materials). For reference, the ACL decided to create our own DOIs such that we could control where the DOIs resolved to, as earlier, ACM "owned" the DOI redirect, taking traffic from ACL to route to their ACM Portal digital library, in exchange for the cost of DOI assignation (US$1 per paper). With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 2K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles. For 2014/2015 we had to incur about ~1.5K for both years combined.

	We now have semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We have begun to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.		We now have semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We have begun to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.
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	While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.		While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.

	Finally, we ~~recognize~~ that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. ~~It is of too much import~~ to have a ~~single editor be responsible for~~ the ~~policymaking~~ of the Anthology. ~~We hope~~ the ~~Exec will endorse~~ the ~~call for a steering~~ committee ~~to provide the necessary oversight for the Anthology~~. ~~This is to~~ be ~~discussed during the executive meeting~~.		Finally, we recognise that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. The Exec accepted Min's resolution to have a steering committee deal with the oversight of the Anthology. Currently, the IO (Jing-Shin), the editor (Min) and the CL journal editor (Paola) serve on this committee. The committee has not started meeting yet, but we envision it will meet soon after the winter teleconference, and be held twice yearly.

	'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

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	The Information Officer (IO) portfolio includes integration of the different ACL-wide activities that are related to information dissemination; including the Anthology, website, wiki, portal and archive. Plans include provide integration of logins (through OpenID and OAuth; IN PROGRESS); update our information services to be updated and professionally-designed (PLANNED).		The Information Officer (IO) portfolio includes integration of the different ACL-wide activities that are related to information dissemination; including the Anthology, website, wiki, portal and archive. Plans include provide integration of logins (through OpenID and OAuth; IN PROGRESS); update our information services to be updated and professionally-designed (PLANNED).

	With the beginning of 2016, Jing-Shin Chang has taken over the IO as part of his at-large duties, with outgoing IO Min-Yen Kan, overseeing and retaining execution rights where needed. Min-Yen will revoke his rights no later than 2016 Q2 or as when Jing-Shin sees fit to remove access control.

	The Information Officer does not manage nor do the day-to-day operations for the Anthology, ACL Wiki or website, but has the purview to dictate policy for it. The Anthology is managed separately by Min-Yen Kan and the primary ACL Wiki is managed by Peter Turney. For other information services (other Wikis, the website and the portal), the current webmaster is in charge, but needs to have strong direction set by the Information Officer.		The Information Officer does not manage nor do the day-to-day operations for the Anthology, ACL Wiki or website, but has the purview to dictate policy for it. The Anthology is managed separately by Min-Yen Kan and the primary ACL Wiki is managed by Peter Turney. For other information services (other Wikis, the website and the portal), the current webmaster is in charge, but needs to have strong direction set by the Information Officer.

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	The Information Officer (IO) portfolio includes integration of the different ACL-wide activities that are related to information dissemination; including the Anthology, website, wiki, portal and archive. Plans include provide integration of logins (through OpenID and OAuth; IN PROGRESS); update our information services to be updated and professionally-designed (PLANNED).		The Information Officer (IO) portfolio includes integration of the different ACL-wide activities that are related to information dissemination; including the Anthology, website, wiki, portal and archive. Plans include provide integration of logins (through OpenID and OAuth; IN PROGRESS); update our information services to be updated and professionally-designed (PLANNED).

			With the beginning of 2016, Jing-Shin Chang has taken over the IO as part of his at-large duties, with outgoing IO Min-Yen Kan, overseeing and retaining execution rights where needed. Min-Yen will revoke his rights no later than 2016 Q2 or as when Jing-Shin sees fit to remove access control.

	The Information Officer does not manage nor do the day-to-day operations for the Anthology, ACL Wiki or website, but has the purview to dictate policy for it. The Anthology is managed separately by Min-Yen Kan and the primary ACL Wiki is managed by Peter Turney. For other information services (other Wikis, the website and the portal), the current webmaster is in charge, but needs to have strong direction set by the Information Officer.		The Information Officer does not manage nor do the day-to-day operations for the Anthology, ACL Wiki or website, but has the purview to dictate policy for it. The Anthology is managed separately by Min-Yen Kan and the primary ACL Wiki is managed by Peter Turney. For other information services (other Wikis, the website and the portal), the current webmaster is in charge, but needs to have strong direction set by the Information Officer.
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	'''Budget'''. The IO [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions#May_7.2C_2013 has a budget] to oversee part-time manpower allocated to help improve our association's websites, which includes maintenance, upgrading, migrating and backup. So far, we have incurred costs of 2,940, with less than 1000 additional in committed manpower for outstanding payments to our new webmaster and for our new web host. This is well in line with our projections.		'''Budget'''. The IO [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions#May_7.2C_2013 has a budget] to oversee part-time manpower allocated to help improve our association's websites, which includes maintenance, upgrading, migrating and backup. So far, we have incurred costs of 2,940, with less than 1000 additional in committed manpower for outstanding payments to our new webmaster and for our new web host. This is well in line with our projections.

	'''DOIs/CrossRef'''. We have ~~assiged~~ Document Object Identifiers (DOIs) ~~on a trial basis for conference proceedings~~ for 2014 and ~~plan to continue up to 2015, before assigning backlogged materials back to 2012. We hope to assign live DOIs to ACL~~ 2015 ~~and satellite materials~~. We ~~hope to~~ have a ~~standard~~ operating procedure in place for DOI assignation for our conference proceedings ~~by the end~~ of the ~~year~~. ~~We are still investigating~~ DOIs for TACL~~, as DOIs for TACL would also be assigned directly by ACL (~~in ~~contrast to ''Computational Linguistics'', which is assigned by MIT Press)~~.		'''DOIs/CrossRef'''. We have assigned Document Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all materials in 2014 and 2015. We now have a operating procedure in place for DOI assignation for our conference and workshop proceedings, as part of the Anthology's operations. DOIs for TACL are planned in the first half of the year.

	'''Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge / Elsevier Scopus Indexing''': We know a good portion of our membership relies on impact assessment for promotion, ranking and tenure. We are trying to tackle this problem by investigating whether our materials can be indexed by major citation indices, namely Thompson Reuter's Web of Knowledge (Wok) and Elsevier's Scopus. We have initiated discussions and provided materials since Oct 2014 to WoK, but they have not been forthcoming with any status or updates with respect to our queries. We continue to attempt to remind them on a monthly basis, but unfortunately, we have not be able to get any response.		'''Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge / Elsevier Scopus Indexing''': We know a good portion of our membership relies on impact assessment for promotion, ranking and tenure. We are trying to tackle this problem by investigating whether our materials can be indexed by major citation indices, namely Thompson Reuter's Web of Knowledge (Wok) and Elsevier's Scopus. We have initiated discussions and provided materials since Oct 2014 to WoK, but they have not been forthcoming with any status or updates with respect to our queries. We continue to attempt to remind them on a monthly basis, but unfortunately, we have not be able to get any response.

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	The Anthology now contains over 34,800 (up from 34,000 papers in the last report in Q1) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2015.		The Anthology now contains over 34,800 (up from 34,000 papers in the last report in Q1) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2015.

	~~An achievement for~~ the ~~Anthology is~~ the ~~semi-updated statistics on~~ the ~~most accessed papers and authors~~ from the ~~Anthology~~. ~~We hope~~ to ~~automate this information and propagate this information into~~ the ~~pages for~~ the ~~papers and authors so~~ to ~~provide additional data for authors~~ to ~~argue~~ for ~~their impact~~. ~~We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as~~ to ~~be able~~ to ~~run other analytics when interests from members~~ of ~~our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves~~.		We have begun assigning DOIs to our own materials this year, starting with the 2014 materials and hopefully pushing towards the current timeline, before ingesting other earlier materials before the migration from the courtesy DOI assignation from ACM (for pre-2012 materials). For reference, the ACL decided to create our own DOIs such that we could control where the DOIs resolved to, as earlier, ACM "owned" the DOI redirect, taking traffic from ACL to route to their ACM Portal digital library, in exchange for the cost of DOI assignation (US$1 per paper). With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 2K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles.

	We ~~hope to interest~~ the ~~ACL community in volunteering time to help~~ the Anthology ~~improve~~. We ~~will likely discuss~~ this ~~through circulation~~ to the ~~Exec at a later date~~.		We now have semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We have begun to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.

	While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.		While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.
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	Finally, we recognize that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. It is of too much import to have a single editor be responsible for the policymaking of the Anthology. We hope the Exec will endorse the call for a steering committee to provide the necessary oversight for the Anthology. This is to be discussed during the executive meeting.		Finally, we recognize that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. It is of too much import to have a single editor be responsible for the policymaking of the Anthology. We hope the Exec will endorse the call for a steering committee to provide the necessary oversight for the Anthology. This is to be discussed during the executive meeting.

	'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of ~~533~~ members (up from ~~469~~ from a year ago, and ~~479~~ from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 555 members (up from 479 from a year ago, and 533 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

	'''Plans.''' ~~A key thrust this year will be to start assigning DOIs~~, ~~as part of the ACL's initiative to take DOIs under our control.~~		'''Plans.''' Aside from completing DOI assignation, a second thrust is to other forms of scientific knowledge that we are interested in archiving. These include software, datasets and videos. The procedures for integrating these with START and the submission process need to be worked out, and the space requirements for these services assessed. For the time being, we will concentrate on videos.

	A second thrust is to other forms of scientific knowledge that we are interested in archiving. These include software, datasets and videos. The procedures for integrating these with START and the submission process need to be worked out, and the space requirements for these services assessed. For the time being, we will concentrate on videos.

	A third thrust will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.		A third thrust will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.
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	We have long term plans to work on these other following issues which are smaller in scope than the above major thrusts:		We have long term plans to work on these other following issues which are smaller in scope than the above major thrusts:

	* A previous discussion (with Ken Church) proposed that we create a single bibtex file for all Anthology materials. The beta Anthology can generate such information fairly easily with its database backing; we plan to have this file available ~~soon (before~~ the ACL ~~2014~~ conference).		* A previous discussion (with Ken Church) proposed that we create a single bibtex file for all Anthology materials. The beta Anthology can generate such information fairly easily with its database backing; we plan to have this file available during the ACL 2015 conference.
	* To create a XML representation of all of the metadata that is used to create the Anthology site.		* To create a XML representation of all of the metadata that is used to create the Anthology site.
	* collaboration with START and aclpub (also may involve the Conference Officer's work) to integrate users of their system and to obtain LaTeX and abstracts for indexing and preservation.		* [low priority] collaboration with START and aclpub (also may involve the Conference Officer's work) to integrate users of their system and to obtain LaTeX and abstracts for indexing and preservation.
	* collaboration with ELRA with respect to use of the LRE Map and ISLRNs, and voluntarily helping them with scanning backlog archives into a digital form.		* [low priority] collaboration with ELRA with respect to use of the LRE Map and ISLRNs, and voluntarily helping them with scanning backlog archives into a digital form.

	== Web Site and Hosting Provider ==		== Web Site and Hosting Provider ==

Knmnyn: /* Anthology */

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Anthology

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	The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. We employ a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).		The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. We employ a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).

	The Anthology now contains over 34,~~000~~ (up from 31,~~500~~ papers in the last report in Q3) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2015.		The Anthology now contains over 34,800 (up from 34,000 papers in the last report in Q1) The [http://aclanthology.info new ACL Anthology] is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, as we have had some time to sort out problems with the site. However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2015.

	An achievement for the Anthology is the semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We hope to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.		An achievement for the Anthology is the semi-updated statistics on the most accessed papers and authors from the Anthology. We hope to automate this information and propagate this information into the pages for the papers and authors so to provide additional data for authors to argue for their impact. We have preserved the web log data for the new Anthology so as to be able to run other analytics when interests from members of our community can utilize the logs to create better services for ourselves.
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	We hope to interest the ACL community in volunteering time to help the Anthology improve. We will likely discuss this through circulation to the Exec at a later date.		We hope to interest the ACL community in volunteering time to help the Anthology improve. We will likely discuss this through circulation to the Exec at a later date.

	While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration ~~in before the Q3 report~~.		While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and will not likely scale to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We are investigating which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a VPS account as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We hope to work this migration soon.

	Finally, we recognize that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. It is of too much import to have a single editor be responsible for the policymaking of the Anthology. We hope the Exec will endorse the call for a steering committee to provide the necessary oversight for the Anthology.		Finally, we recognize that the ACL Anthology has become a significant asset for the ACL, manifesting its central role in the NLP/CL research communities. It is of too much import to have a single editor be responsible for the policymaking of the Anthology. We hope the Exec will endorse the call for a steering committee to provide the necessary oversight for the Anthology. This is to be discussed during the executive meeting.

	'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 533 members (up from 469 from a year ago, and 479 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List.''' The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 533 members (up from 469 from a year ago, and 479 from the last report 6 months ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

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IO Overview

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	'''Budget'''. The IO [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions#May_7.2C_2013 has a budget] to oversee part-time manpower allocated to help improve our association's websites, which includes maintenance, upgrading, migrating and backup. So far, we have incurred costs of 2,940, with less than 1000 additional in committed manpower for outstanding payments to our new webmaster and for our new web host. This is well in line with our projections.		'''Budget'''. The IO [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions#May_7.2C_2013 has a budget] to oversee part-time manpower allocated to help improve our association's websites, which includes maintenance, upgrading, migrating and backup. So far, we have incurred costs of 2,940, with less than 1000 additional in committed manpower for outstanding payments to our new webmaster and for our new web host. This is well in line with our projections.

	'''DOIs/CrossRef'''. We have assiged Document Object Identifiers (DOIs) on a trial basis for conference proceedings for 2014 and plan to continue up to 2015, before assigning backlogged materials back to 2012. We hope to assign live DOIs to ACL 2015 and satellite materials. We hope to have a standard operating procedure in place for DOI assignation for our conference proceedings by the end of the year. We are still investigating DOIs for TACL, as DOIs for TACL would also be assigned directly by ACL (in contrast to ~~_Computational Linguistics_~~, which is assigned by MIT Press).		'''DOIs/CrossRef'''. We have assiged Document Object Identifiers (DOIs) on a trial basis for conference proceedings for 2014 and plan to continue up to 2015, before assigning backlogged materials back to 2012. We hope to assign live DOIs to ACL 2015 and satellite materials. We hope to have a standard operating procedure in place for DOI assignation for our conference proceedings by the end of the year. We are still investigating DOIs for TACL, as DOIs for TACL would also be assigned directly by ACL (in contrast to ''Computational Linguistics'', which is assigned by MIT Press).

	'''Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge / Elsevier Scopus Indexing''': We know a good portion of our membership relies on impact assessment for promotion, ranking and tenure. We are trying to tackle this problem by investigating whether our materials can be indexed by major citation indices, namely Thompson Reuter's Web of Knowledge (Wok) and Elsevier's Scopus. We have initiated discussions and provided materials since Oct 2014 to WoK, but they have not been forthcoming with any status or updates with respect to our queries. We continue to attempt to remind them on a monthly basis, but unfortunately, we have not be able to get any response.		'''Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge / Elsevier Scopus Indexing''': We know a good portion of our membership relies on impact assessment for promotion, ranking and tenure. We are trying to tackle this problem by investigating whether our materials can be indexed by major citation indices, namely Thompson Reuter's Web of Knowledge (Wok) and Elsevier's Scopus. We have initiated discussions and provided materials since Oct 2014 to WoK, but they have not been forthcoming with any status or updates with respect to our queries. We continue to attempt to remind them on a monthly basis, but unfortunately, we have not be able to get any response.