Integrated Information Management for TESLA

TL;DR

This paper discusses DESY's integrated information management systems supporting TESLA project planning, engineering, and infrastructure, emphasizing system integration for efficient data access in large-scale physics collaborations.

Contribution

It introduces multiple information systems at DESY for TESLA and details efforts to integrate them for streamlined access and management.

Findings

Multiple systems are operational supporting different project aspects.

Integration efforts aim to provide single-point information access.

Systems enhance collaboration efficiency in large physics projects.

Abstract

Next-generation projects in High Energy Physics will reach again a new dimension of complexity. Information management has to ensure an efficient and economic information flow within the collaborations, offering world-wide up-to-date information access to the collaborators as one condition for successful projects. DESY introduces several information systems in preparation for the planned linear collider TESLA: a Requirements Management System (RMS) is in production for the TESLA planning group, a Product Data Management System (PDMS) is in production since the beginning of 2002 and is supporting the cavity preparation and the general engineering of accelerator components. A pilot Asset Management System (AMS) is in production for supporting the management and maintenance of the technical infrastructure, and a Facility Management System (FMS) with a Geographic Information System (GIS) is currently being introduced to support civil engineering. Efforts have been started to integrate the systems with the goal that users can retrieve information through a single point of access. The paper gives an introduction to information management and the activities at DESY.