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- Started improving tools and interfaces to allow moderators to interact more directly and efficiently with the arXiv system and administrators based on input from the Scientific Advisory Board and moderators (to be continued in 2015)
- Made several improvements such as expanding the arXiv ID to be prepare for 10,000 submissions/month milestone and adding automatic classification checks to submission system (integrated with moderator alerting)
- Created a summary documentation the arXiv codebase arrangement, technologies, and areas of personnel expertise
- Further improved security by implementing Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) for all login and account interaction interactions and initiated the implementation of strategies to protect submitters’ email addresses from being harvested, and
- Started integrating an automatic overlap detection application developed by Paul Gingparg to comparing new submissions with existing corpus and generate notifications for administrators and moderators
Governance, Communication, & Organizational Model
- Recruited Chris Myers as the interim Scientific Director to formulate overall scientific direction of the service and its policies (arXiv's organizational model) (
- Formed several Member Advisory Board (MAB) and Scientific Advisory Board subgroups to focus on specific issues such as the IT prioritization, recruitment of a scientific director, evaluation of membership & revenue model.
- Appointed two new SAB members based on a nomination and election process specified by the SAB bylaw.
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