CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
From the early ideas conceived at the beginning of the electronic publication era JACoW has grown to become a global collaboration serving the international accelerator community. This talk will describe the development of the collaboration from its birth (which has strong ties to BNL) and explain who and what it is today. JACoW provides much more than the website with its specialised search engine through event organisation tools (SPMS), automated proceedings production and support for conference organisers – these features will be presented. Proceedings production and the reasons for the technical requirements for preparation JACoW papers will be explained, illustrated by a number of examples. The talk will conclude with a brief look to the future in terms of development of the collaboration and its services and the question of long term archival.
