thedixitjain SIGMOD Camera Ready
Acceptance at SIGMOD produces a journal article, not a conference paper: the final version appears in an issue of PACMMOD (Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data), with one issue corresponding to each submission round, and the authors are invited to present at the SIGMOD conference itself. Camera-ready work therefore splits into a publication stream (ACM) and a presentation stream (the conference), on different clocks. Reopen the acceptance email and the current PACMMOD instructions before executing.
The template flip
You submitted and revised in the standard ACM template; PACMMOD format enters only now. The port is not cosmetic:
- Line widths, float placement, and page breaks all move; every figure, wide table, and multi-part plot needs re-inspection after conversion.
- Keep section numbering and claim wording aligned with the accepted version — the revision letter promised specific text at specific places, and shepherds or chairs may compare.
- Rebuild the bibliography against ACM reference style; DOIs for database papers are almost always available and expected.
- Complete ACM's rights/e-form workflow and supply ORCIDs and final affiliations exactly as they should render in the ACM Digital Library.
De-anonymization inventory
| Item restored | Detail to get right |
|---|---|
| Author block | Order agreed by all authors; affiliations current, not thesis-era |
| Funding | Grant numbers reinstated after months of enforced absence |
| Acknowledgements | Colleagues and shepherd thanked; forbidden during review, expected now |
| Artifact links | Anonymous mirrors swapped for the canonical public repository |
| Self-citations | Third-person circumlocutions rewritten as honest first person |
| Prior-version notes | Relationship to any workshop or tech-report version stated |
The reverse sweep matters as much as the forward one during review: search the final PDF for leftover "anonymous," placeholder ORCIDs, and dead anonymized URLs before upload.
Issue placement and timing
Because each round feeds its own PACMMOD issue, your publication date is set by the round you cleared, not by the conference week. A Round 1 acceptance can be citable in the ACM DL long before the conference convenes (SIGMOD 2027: June 13–19, 2027, Huntington Beach, California). Plan announcements, preprint updates, and artifact releases against the issue date, and registration, travel, and talk preparation against the conference date.
Post-acceptance checklist
[ ] PACMMOD-format PDF compiles clean; all floats re-inspected post-port
[ ] Accepted-version wording preserved where the revision letter promised it
[ ] Author block, funding, acknowledgements restored and proofread
[ ] ACM rights form, ORCIDs, and DL metadata submitted
[ ] Public artifact repository live, licensed, README-tested from outside
[ ] ARI participation decided; artifact frozen at the paper's claims
[ ] Conference registration and presenting-author travel confirmed
[ ] Talk and poster drafted against the published, not submitted, numbers
Artifact and ARI handoff
Camera-ready is the natural moment to convert the anonymized review-time package into the public artifact:
- Publish the repository under its real organization with a license, a pinned environment, and the exact scripts behind every figure.
- If joining the Availability & Reproducibility Initiative, freeze a tagged
release that matches the published numbers — evaluators reproduce the
paper, not the current main branch (see
sigmod-artifact-evaluation). - Embed the artifact URL in the final PDF so the DL version is self-locating; ARI badges, if earned, attach to that same DL record.
Concrete timeline: a Round 1 acceptance
Trace the SIGMOD 2027 Round 1 path to see the two clocks diverge:
- Jan 17, 2026 — paper submitted.
- Apr 19 or Jun 12, 2026 — acceptance (direct, or after revision).
- Following weeks — PACMMOD port, rights forms, metadata; the Round 1 issue publishes on the journal's schedule.
- Summer/fall 2026 — paper citable in the ACM DL; artifact public; ARI participation window per the current edition.
- Jun 13-19, 2027 — the talk, up to a year after the science was public.
Teams routinely under-use the gap: it is enough time to earn an ARI badge, gather adoption or feedback, and walk into the conference presenting a paper with a track record rather than a debut.
Failure modes at this stage
- Porting to PACMMOD format on deadline night and shipping a clipped figure nobody re-checked.
- Quietly "improving" a result during the port and breaking agreement with the version reviewers accepted.
- Announcing the paper with a repository that still 404s or carries the anonymized placeholder name.
- Treating the conference date as the publication date and missing the earlier issue-level metadata deadlines.
Output format
[Port status] not started / converted / verified post-conversion
[Fidelity check] accepted-version wording preserved yes/no, diffs listed
[Identity restore] author block / funding / acknowledgements / links
[ACM pipeline] rights form, ORCID, metadata state
[Artifact handoff] public repo state, ARI decision, tagged release
[Presentation track] registration, presenter, talk-material state
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills → SIGMOD-Skills/skills/sigmod-camera-ready/SKILL.md