ICSD: The inorganic crystal structure database - FIZ Karlsruhe
ICSD: The inorganic crystal structure database - FIZ Karlsruhe
ICSD: The inorganic crystal structure database - FIZ Karlsruhe
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<strong>ICSD</strong>:<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>inorganic</strong> <strong>crystal</strong> <strong>structure</strong> <strong>database</strong>
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (<strong>ICSD</strong>)<br />
Software Solutions<br />
• Web<br />
• Windows PC<br />
• STN<br />
Data Collection<br />
• Exhaustive searches<br />
• Evaluation/completion<br />
• Adding value<br />
Current Contents<br />
<strong>ICSD</strong>: the most comprehensive <strong>database</strong> on fully determined <strong>inorganic</strong> <strong>crystal</strong> <strong>structure</strong>s<br />
• Full structural data: cell parameters, atom positions for all entries, displacement parameters<br />
• Full bibliographic data: publication title, journal reference(s), author names<br />
• Full <strong>structure</strong> description: Structural formula, compositions, ANX formulae, <strong>structure</strong> types<br />
• High-quality data: extensive data evaluation and correction by senior experts<br />
• Web and PC based software solutions, data updated twice a year<br />
• 25+ years of serving the scientific community<br />
<strong>ICSD</strong> 200x Java EE Architecture<br />
Visualization<br />
and Analysis<br />
Apache<br />
Tomcat / Struts<br />
<strong>ICSD</strong> Data<br />
Search Service<br />
Cooperations<br />
• Data analysis<br />
• Data integration<br />
Client Server Database<br />
Search and<br />
Retrieve<br />
JBoss Application Server<br />
• Authentication & Authorisation<br />
• Personalization<br />
• Search & Retrieve Logic<br />
• Data Export/Import<br />
<strong>ICSD</strong>
Towards a Duplicate Free Inorganic Structural Database<br />
• Use recently developed algorithms for the similarity analysis of <strong>crystal</strong> <strong>structure</strong>s<br />
• Combine these with data analysis algorithms<br />
Get a Duplicate Free Database<br />
Facts and Numbers<br />
• Time coverage: 1913–today<br />
• 100,243 entries in total (105,000 entries in April 2008)<br />
8,000 – 10,000 new and modified entries per year<br />
• more than 70,000 unique entries<br />
• Data from more than 1,900 periodicals, by more than 38,000 authors.<br />
• Two entries per publication, four publications per author<br />
• 20 (1.5 %) out of 1,900 periodicals cover more than 60-70 % entries<br />
• 1,880(!) periodicals for 30,000 records<br />
New Content<br />
• Integration and re-evaluation of more than 45,000 new and non-duplicate data records<br />
• Extending the set of intermetallic compounds<br />
• Introducing generalized compositions<br />
• Fully searchable interatomic distances up to the nanometer length scale<br />
• Fully searchable <strong>structure</strong> types<br />
• Release in late 2008<br />
<strong>ICSD</strong> 200x – <strong>crystal</strong>s anywhere<br />
• New Web Application<br />
• Easy access from anywhere around the world<br />
• Based on industry-standard Java EE<br />
• New Features:<br />
– More Data<br />
– Enhanced Search Functionality<br />
– Easy Analysis of Large & Complex Data Sets<br />
– Simple & Powerful Query Management<br />
– Personalized Accounts & Extended User Management<br />
• To be released in late 2008<br />
• New PC version scheduled
About <strong>FIZ</strong> <strong>Karlsruhe</strong><br />
<strong>FIZ</strong> <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> is an experienced service<br />
partner for information transfer and<br />
knowledge management in science and<br />
industry. Its activities focus on the<br />
development of KnowEsis, sophisticated<br />
e-Science solutions, and the provision<br />
of a worldwide unique collection<br />
of <strong>database</strong>s through its online service<br />
STN International.<br />
For thirty years, <strong>FIZ</strong> <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> has been<br />
offering its high-quality, value-added<br />
information services to scientists from<br />
all over the world involved in academic<br />
and industrial R&D, as well as to decision<br />
makers in business and administration.<br />
In cooperation with national and international<br />
institutions, <strong>FIZ</strong> <strong>Karlsruhe</strong><br />
produces and provides information<br />
systems in various fields of science<br />
and technology, including the most<br />
distinguished patent <strong>database</strong>s.<br />
<strong>FIZ</strong> <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> is a member of the Leibniz<br />
Association (WGL), an association of<br />
non-academic scientific research and<br />
service institutions.<br />
For further information, please contact:<br />
<strong>FIZ</strong> <strong>Karlsruhe</strong><br />
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Germany<br />
Phone: +49 7247 808 555<br />
Fax: +49 7247 808 259<br />
helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de<br />
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