Many conferences in computer science started to establish an artifact review process that awards badges to artifacts that pass various review criteria. Although the process is individual, many orient their criteria on ACM's guidelines for reviewing artifacts. ACM provides three dimensions with five different badges. Unfortunately, the badges are quite ACM-centric and do not have any kind of license attached. Hence, if you chair an artifact evaluation committee, you are often presented with the issue: where do you get badges for your conference?
This repository tries to solve this problem by providing badges that can be used by anyone. The badges are licensed under CC0. No attribution is required.
If you want to change the label on the badges, just open one of the source .svg files with Inkscape (or a similar tool of your choice), change the text, and export each badge as a .pdf.
Ensure that you have the necessary font (see About the sources) on your system and that it is embedded in the exported .pdf.
- Download the appropriate badges as
.pdfs from this repository and place them beside your LaTeX files. - Add the LaTeX snippet from below to your document and experiment with the placement.
- Add your DOI as link to the "Available" badge if you received it.
Because LNCS does not provide a standard placement for the badges, you need to experiment a little to find a good place for them. They should be on the first page and not inside the margins (because the margins will be cut by Springer before publication).
You can start with the following Latex snippet:
\documentclass{lncs}
\usepackage{showframe} % print page margins, remove when positioning is satisfying
\usepackage{graphicx} % necessary for inserting .pdfs
\usepackage{hyperref} % "available" badge is a link to the actual DOI
\usepackage[firstpage]{draftwatermark} % free badge placement
\SetWatermarkAngle{0}
\SetWatermarkText{\raisebox{12.5cm}{%
\hspace{0.1cm}%
\href{https://github.com/danieldietsch/ae-badges}{\includegraphics{1-available}}%
\hspace{9cm}%
\includegraphics{2-functional}%
}}The exact positioning depends on your author list, your title size, and the number of lines you use for your affiliations.
A complete example based on Springer's LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates including visible margins is also available as .tex or .pdf.
If you have your own badges and would like to contribute them to other conferences, feel free to file a pull request with the .svg and the resulting .pdf files so that we can add them here.
These badges were originally published for VMCAI 2020 by Claus Schätzle.
The badges also work when printed in grayscale:
