Online Annotations

As a speaker at ITP with an online talk posted on our website, you have the ability to enter an abstract, links, and annotations. The ITP online seminars are widely viewed (about 400,000 hits/month) and, we expect, will provide you with a effective way to communicate your results, complementing the Los Alamos preprint archive. You can enhance your talk, and bring it up to date later, by entering links and comments on it.

How to Access

Your access to modify your talk is of course protected by password, and you should have already been given a username and password for this purpose. If not, please check with the ITP staff.

To enter material, go to the title page your talk, found by starting at http://www.itp.ucsb.edu/online and drilling down. At the far lower right hand corner of your title page, you will see a link "Author entry (protected)". Click on this link, and enter your username and password when prompted. This should bring you to an enhanced title page with a text-entry box.

How to Enter an Abstract

To enter (or modify) the abstract for your talk, just type into the text box. You can also cut-and-paste text into the box. If you want to enter text longer than the box, the box should scroll.

When done with all entries, hit the button "Submit Changes", and an acknowledgement and preview will appear.

How to Enter Links

To enter a link to the Los Alamos preprint server, just select the correct archive (like hep-th) from the pick list, and enter the accession number (like 9801023) in the second box. The right-hand pick list allows you to mark this link as a paper you have prepared directly for these proceedings, as another paper of yours, or (generosity pays!) a paper by another author. If you cannot pick the correct archive, or if you want to enter a link elsewhere on the Web, you must choose Other from the pick list, and then enter into the second box the full URL, such as
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9711200
or
http://www.myuniv.edu/~mypage/details.html

If several links belong to the same archive (e.g., hep-th) you can enter all the accession numbers as a comma-separated list in the same box (e.g., 9801011, 9802022, 9803033).

When done with all entries, hit the button "Submit Changes", and an acknowledgement and preview will appear.

Material can be entered or modified at any time, and updates are instantaneous. One point: If you return to the public version of your talk, you may not see the newly entered text at first. This is the usual problem that your browser has cached the previous version of the page; you need to click "View/Reload" on your browser to load the new version, perhaps after waiting a few minutes.

How to Annotate an Individual Slide

To annotate an individual slide, click on the thumbnail image of the slide on the enhanced title page. A separate window bearing another text-entry box and the slide should now appear, and you can enter text and links, submitted in the same way.

Please Enter Links

Perhaps the most important items you can add to your pages are links to other websites, for instance, to your pages on your home computer, or to the Los Alamos preprint server. See above for use of the link boxes. Should you wish to enter links in the body of your abstract, or in the body of annotations on individual slides, you must enter them "by hand" in HTML, following this format:
<A HREF="http://www.myuniv.edu/~mypage/details.html">See Details</A>
or
<A HREF="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9711200">hep-th/9711200</A>
Please note carefully the use of special characters here; web technology is finicky. A link consists of pair of tags, each enclosed in < >, and clickable word(s) between them. The URL (or net address) is within double quotes "" inside the first tag.

More on Text Entry

Material typed into the text-entry box appears in the box as plain text, but will be interpreted as HTML code on your public pages, as shown in the after-submission preview. If you know a little HTML, feel free to use it; if you don't, just follow a few rules: For more information on HTML, see the NCSA Primer.

Images or multimedia cannot be entered into to your talk (at present), only text and links. However, you can and should enter links to such material of yours elsewhere on the net. There currently is no simple way to enter symbols or equations, but stay tuned.

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