A Polymer Information-Base System on CD-ROM

CAPDAS

Abstract

CAPDAS, a polymer information-base system contains data, knowledge, and other types of information which are necessary for advanced research and development of polymer science. It was designed to provide comprehensive information as well as the domain specialists oriented functions to manage and to use the available information to the maximal extent. The contents are scientific and technical articles, C-13 NMR spectra, some of which were measured originally for numerical standardization of data, catalogs of commercial polymers including data of fundamental and practical properties, a thesaurus, a taxonomy and so on. These data were collected according to the request of wide range of potential users such as chemists, physicists, engineers, users in the polymer and related fields. The system was developed on a basis of a new information model called PIBS-SORITES(Polymer Information Base Systems with Self Organizing Receptor Interconnections), which can handle semantics through dynamic structures of composite information for materials research and development.