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FACS Newsletter 2/2003 Report on Asian Chemical Information Network Project Activities in 2001 - 2003
Xiaoxia Li* and Yoshimasa Takahashi**
*Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
**Dept. Knowledge-based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
As one of the FACS Projects, the major activities of Asian Chemical Information Network (ChIN) cab be
summarized as:
1. Maintenance of the FACS Web Site
Since the FACS Web site was officially launched in 9ACC, Brisbane, July 2001, daily maintenance of the web site has been contributed by ChIN project. Major updates including official announcements of FACS, contacts of member societies, meeting information, reports of projects, the electronic publication of FACS Newsletter. The FACS Web site now consists of over 560 files and the size of FACS web site contents is about 15 MB.
Automated Web Server Statistics for FACS Web site has been added and is taken on daily basis[2], which can monitor the dynamic visits to FACS Web site from chemistry community in the world. Fig. 1 shows the steady growing hits to the FACS site on monthly basis, and the total successful requests to the web site has been over 184,060 since 06-Jun-2001.
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Fig. 1 Web Server Statistics (Monthly Report) for FACS |
The FACS Web site has been linked by some major professional societies such as the ChemSoc[3], the chemistry resources site provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry, Society of Chemical Industry[4].
The FACS Web site has been served as an effective means for promoting and archiving FACS activities. It could be expected that it would play more important role to publicize FACS in the world chemistry community and to facilitate communications among its member societies.
2. Web Guide of Internet Chemistry Resources
As a web guide of Internet chemistry resources for more than 5 years, the construction of ChIN page continues as the Chemistry Portal of the Chinese Science Digital Library[5]. The links in ChIN page database is over 7000 now. The successful requests to ChIN page has been over 7,836,781 since 1998.
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Fig. 2 ChIN Page ¨C A Chemistry Portal Site |
3. ChIN Mini symposium on Chemometrics and Cheminformatics at 10ACC
A half day mini symposium on Chemometrics and Cheminformatics will be organized by ChIN project at 10 ACC. WeˇŻll have speakers from Australia, China, Japan and Vietnam.
References
[1] The FACS Web site, http://www.facs-as.org/
[2] Web Server Statistics for FACS Web site, http://www.facs-as.org/stat/stat.html
[3] ChemSoc: networks & societies, http://www.chemsoc.org/societies/society2.htm
[4] http://www.soci.org/SCI/general/2001/html/ge23.jsp
[5] http://chemport.ipe.ac.cn/ or
http://www.chinweb.com.cn/
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