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The International Spectroscopic Database (IS-DB) went live on 19 May 2003. Following over seven years fighting for funding and receiving the EU EuroSpec grant1 in 2002 the team are pleased to announce that the first version of the international digital archive for spectroscopic data was switched on for data deposition in May.
Luisa Mannina,a,b Anatoli P. Sobolevb and Annalaura Segreb
aUniversity of Molise, Faculty of Agriculture, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
bInstitute of Chemical Methodologies, CNR, 00016 Monterotondo Staz., Rome, Italy
A.M.C.Davies,a and Tom Fearn,b
aNorwich Near Infrared Consultancy, 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA,UK
bDepartment of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London
Tony Davies
External Professor, University of Glamorgan, UK. c/o Creon Lab Control AG, Europaallee 27-29, 50226 Frechen, Germany
Tony M.C. Davies
Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA,UK
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London
Tony Davies
External Professor, University of Glamorgan, UK c/o Creon Lab Control AG, Europaallee 27–29, 50226 Frechen, Germany
Tony Davies
Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy , 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA, UK
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London,WC1E 6BT, UK
Antony N. Davies
External Professor, University of Glamorgan,Wales, UK, and Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Dortmund, Germany
Tony Davies
Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA, UK
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
A.M.C. Davies
Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich, NR4 6AA, UK
Antony N. Davies
ISAS, Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Dortmund, Germany
A.M.C. Davies
Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA, UK
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
A new joint venture between Galactic Industries and Nicolet has further added to the list of innovation in reference spectroscopic data delivery. The internet service running under http://ftiresearch.com was launched on 17 April 2000. With this new service coming on-line, the spectroscopist must now regard the year 2000 as one of the best for the introduction of new strategies and options for reference database access and service ever!
At the end of the last column we promised that this time we would show how matrix algebra can be used for real computational tasks. The chosen task is Fourier transformation (FT) of a near infrared (NIR) spectrum. Those who know Tony Davies will not be surprised at this choice of subject but in the third lesson the reason for wanting to do the obvious will become apparent.
Paul Geladi
Department of Organic Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden
The very first Tony Davies Column.
Tony Davies tackles a crucial concept in chemometrics: the way in which data was collected may not be the best form for analysing it.
