MABEL at IPAC: managing address books and email lists at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center

摘要

The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology, isNASA's multi-mission data center for infrared astrophysics. Some of IPAC's services include administering dataanalysis funding awards to the astronomical community, organizing conferences and workshops, and soliciting andselecting fellowship and observing proposals. As most of these services are repeated annually or biannually, it becomesnecessary to maintain multiple lists of email contacts associated with each service. MABEL is a PHP/MySQL webdatabase application designed to facilitate this process. It serves as an address book containing up-to-date contactinformation for thousands of recipients. Recipients may be assigned to any number of email lists categorized by IPACproject and team. Lists may be public (viewable by all project members) or private (viewable only by team members).MABEL can also be used to send HTML or plain-text emails to multiple lists at once and prevents duplicate emails to asingle recipient. This work was performed at the California Institute of Technology under contract to the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.