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Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC
From the journal Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC Volume 29 Issue 2

Securing and Structural Updating of Information in the NPU Coding System and Its Environment

Work on C-NPU defining and coding properties in laboratory science has been going on since the mid-1990s. (NPU stands for Nomenclature, Properties, and Units.) The database structure designed in the 1990s was intended mainly to support the actual coding process (assembly of elements into coded properties), and the production of text files with specific fonts and formatting, intended for paper-based publication.

Terminological information about the elements, their sources, and their uses in coded properties has been stored, but frequently in an implicit manner, as part of other information elements, rather than explicitly in the database.

During almost a decade of coding work, principles and rules for the coding practice have crystallized, but have not been systematically filed. They may be extracted from stored material, like advice to users at laboratories, newsletters retiring “malformed” codes or the like, or they may be present as “silent information” in the coding environment (i.e., in the minds of the people working with the system).

The purpose of this project is to review information present in the system and its environment in order to analyze and extract implicitly stored data and register “silent knowledge.” The objective is to preserve the information, render it accessible for future developers and users, and specify the needs for structured information management in the future.

For more information contact Task Group Chairman Ulla Magdal Petersen <ump@sst.dk>.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ci.2007.29.2.19a

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  2. From the Editor
  3. Contents
  4. Torino–Passion Lives Here
  5. On the Effectiveness of CHEMRAWN
  6. Chemistry in Jordan
  7. Before “Modern” Chemistry
  8. Moissan’s Isolation of Fluorine
  9. Chemists Gather in Budapest for the 1st European Chemistry Congress
  10. Javier Garcia Martinez Wins Silver Medal of the European Young Chemist Award
  11. Observatory on Intellectual Property
  12. 2006 CODATA Prize Awarded to John Rumble
  13. Samsung Total Petrochemical Co., Ltd. Donates USD 25 000 to the IUPAC Polymer Division
  14. Celebrating the Naming of Element 111
  15. In Memoriam
  16. Categorizing Hydrogen Bonding and Other Intermolecular Interactions
  17. Recommendations for Isotope Data in Geosciences
  18. Assessment of Fundamental Understanding of Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights
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  22. Environmental Colloids and Particles: Behaviour, Separation and Characterisation
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