<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>SnapGetStarted</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2018-10-15 19:16:25</date><authorinitials>adrijan</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2018-05-16 20:46:05</date><authorinitials>RokSosic</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2012-10-02 19:45:20</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2012-10-02 19:36:36</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2012-10-02 19:34:46</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2012-08-10 02:55:17</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2012-08-10 02:19:21</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2012-08-10 02:18:17</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Get started @ SNAP</title><para>Welcome to SNAP! Here is a list that will help you get started in the SNAP group. </para><section><title>Remote access</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>SSH to shark.stanford.edu. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Login with your InfoLab account. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>SNAP mailing list</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="mailto:snap-group@lists.stanford.edu">snap-group@lists.stanford.edu</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para>Manage your subscription or request to be added here: <ulink url="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/snap-group"/> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>SNAP Wiki</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Public wiki: <ulink url="http://snap.stanford.edu/moin/"/> </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Create an account yourself. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Ask Andrej to get editing privileges. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Private wiki: <ulink url="http://snap.stanford.edu/wiki"/> or <ulink url="http://www.stanford.edu/group/snap/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page"/> </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Ask Jaewon Yang for an account. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Datasets</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>See SNAP wiki, here: <ulink url="http://www.stanford.edu/group/snap/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets"/> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Source core repository</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Source code is in git. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Use username snap. </para></listitem><listitem><para>More info here: <ulink url="http://www.stanford.edu/group/snap/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/Snap"/> </para></listitem></itemizedlist><screen><![CDATA[git clone snap@shark.stanford.edu:/u/snap/git/snapcore.git]]></screen></section><section><title>Papers, publications repository</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Papers are in an SVN repository. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Use username snap. </para></listitem><listitem><para>More info here: <ulink url="http://www.stanford.edu/group/snap/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/Svn"/> </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>Check out the repository as follows: </para><screen><![CDATA[svn co svn+ssh://snap@snap.stanford.edu/svn/snap2/docs/papers]]></screen><para>The repository can be viewed in a browser with: <ulink url="http://snap.stanford.edu/viewvc/snap/"/> </para></section><section><title>How to create and add a new paper to SVN</title><para>To add a new paper into the repository: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Checkout the appropriate year (e.g., &quot;svn checkout <ulink url="http://snap@snap.stanford.edu/svn/snap2/docs/papers/2018/"/>&quot;) </para></listitem><listitem><para>Create a new subdirectory in the 2018 for the paper. Use the following notation to create the folder &lt;your-name&gt;-&lt;keyword&gt; (e.g., seth-influence, jaewon-communities) </para></listitem><listitem><para>We keep each section of the paper in a separate file (000abstract.tex, 010intro.tex, ...). Here is a paper template that you can use: <ulink url="http://snap.stanford.edu/svn/snap2/docs/papers/samplePaper.zip"/> </para></listitem><listitem><para>We put the figures (EPS files) into the FIG folder (see samplePaper.zip) </para></listitem><listitem><para>We use the Makefile to compile the LaTeX source into PDF. If you rename the *.tex files make sure you also edit the Makefile appropriately. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Now that you have the skeleton of the paper ready add it to the repository: &quot;svn add my-paper&quot;. Make sure you only add *.tex, *.bib, Makefile and the FIG folder. Don't add *.aux and other temporary files. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Tips on writing good papers</title><para>For a nice set of tips and guidelines on how to write a good technical paper see Jennifer Widom's page: <ulink url="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~widom/paper-writing.html"/> </para></section></section></article>