EDBT Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. EDBT papers are published open access on OpenProceedings.org under a CC-BY-NC-ND license with copyright retained by the authors — this is an open-access production step, not an ACM/IEEE DL upload. Reopen the current host-site camera-ready instructions, the OpenProceedings author guidelines, the decision email, and the registration page before advising.

Camera-ready audit

• Use the host/OpenProceedings template, current revision, within the per-shape page budget plus any camera-ready allowance the acceptance letter states. Do not switch to acmart or IEEEtran.
• Complete the OpenProceedings license and copyright step: the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 publishing license (or the exact license the current volume specifies) with author-retained copyright. This is different from an ACM e-rights or IEEE copyright transfer — do not fill in the wrong form.
• Enter the volume metadata: title/abstract, author order and affiliations, ORCIDs where asked, and the fields OpenProceedings needs for the ISBN-bearing volume and the DBLP/Scholar/SCOPUS records. Metadata errors in an open-access record are awkward to fix after the volume is frozen.
• De-anonymize (if the cycle was double-blind): restore the author block, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and the real system and repository names.
• Integrate reviewer-required and revise changes faithfully — without strengthening claims beyond what was evaluated.
• Permanentize the artifact: replace any anonymized or temporary link with a public, DOI-issuing archive under a compatible license, and update the availability statement to point at it.
• Confirm registration and presentation: at least one author presents at the edition your cycle feeds (recall the last-cycle roll to the next year).

Open-access metadata and rights checks

[Template]   host/OpenProceedings template, current revision; no manual margin/font edits
[License]    CC-BY-NC-ND publishing license completed; copyright retained by authors (NOT an ACM/IEEE transfer)
[Metadata]   title, abstract, authors + affiliations/ORCID, keywords all entered and matching PDF
[Volume]     ISBN/volume fields as the OpenProceedings volume requires
[References] complete and consistent; DOIs where available (references are unlimited — keep them full)
[Figures]    vector where possible; readable in print and on screen; captions self-contained
[Links]      every artifact / availability link resolves from a logged-out browser

De-anonymization sweep (if the cycle was double-blind)

Anonymized at submission	Restore at camera-ready	Watch for
Author block, affiliations, ORCID	Full, correctly ordered	Wrong author order breaks the citation
System / prototype name	Real name throughout text, figures, artifact	A leftover placeholder in a caption
Acknowledgements, funding	Restored	Grant numbers required by funders
Repository / artifact link	Public DOI archive	The old anonymized URL surviving in a footnote

If the cycle was single-blind, there is nothing to de-anonymize — but still confirm the artifact link is the permanent, public one.

Worked example: integrating a revise change

The reviewers required adding a tuned baseline at larger scale and moving an overhead result from the appendix into the body. Camera-ready move: place the overhead result in the scope/discussion with its measurement, add the promised scaling table with variance, restore the real system name in the figures, and point the availability statement at the now-public DOI-archived artifact — without expanding the claim the reviewers accepted.

Hedged logistics

• Page allowances, the exact license text and metadata fields, and camera-ready dates change each cycle and each host edition; confirm against the decision email and the current OpenProceedings / host instructions rather than a prior year.
• The publication month depends on which cycle accepted the paper (the rolling model clusters publication across the year); check when your volume goes live.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[Template + budget] host/OpenProceedings template, per-shape budget met? yes/no
[License] CC-BY-NC-ND completed, copyright retained (not ACM/IEEE)? yes/no
[Metadata] authors/affiliations/ORCID/keywords + ISBN volume fields complete? yes/no
[De-anonymization] (if double-blind) author block / system name / links restored? yes/no
[Reviewer-change map] <required change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Open science] artifact link is a permanent DOI archive? yes/no
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>