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Subject: ASTM E13.15 ANIML Working Meeting

Hi Folks,

The address list for this message was gleaned from numerous lists of individuals, who at some time have expressed interest in the interchange of spectroscopy result data.  I have tried to prune the list to eliminate duplicate entries, but this has proved difficult, and there are multiple entries.  When I could not figure out which address was current, I retained the duplicates.  So, if you receive this message multiple times, I apologize.  If you wish to have an address removed from the list, please let me know.  If you know of someone whose name should be added, also let me know.

As many of you may know, ASTM Task group E13.01.03 has now be designated as ASTM Subcommittee E13.15 on Analytical Data Management.  E13.15 will be responsible for defining standards for representing, managing, and interchanging analytical chemistry data including the implementation of technique specific information and application to instrumentation data interfaces.   Furthermore, it has been proposed that ASTM Subcommittee E01.25 on Analytical Data Interchange Protocols be merged into E13.15.  At our recent PittCon meeting, E13.15 unanimously approved this proposal, and it is currently being voted on by the members of E01.25.  If this proposal is approved, the standards formerly under the jurisdiction of E01.25 (LECIS, LIMS guides, and ANDI GC & MS) would be transferred to E13.15.

The main purpose of this email is to announce a working meeting of E13.15 to continue the development of a markup language for analytical spectroscopy and chromatography result data that is now being call Analytical Information Markup Language (ANIML).  The meeting is set for Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24 at ASTM headquarters in West Conshohocken, PA. As suggested by Dave Martinsen (E13.15 Secretary), to minimize travel expenses, we will meet from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Wednesday and from 9:00 AM until 2:30 PM on Thursday.  Gloria Collins (E13.15 ASTM staff liaison) has booked the ASTM Boardroom (and an LCD/computer projector) for our meeting.  Directions for getting to ASTM headquarters can be found on the ASTM web site (www.astm.org -- look under meetings and then general information). 

As we get closer to the meeting date, I'll be sending out an agenda.  In the meantime, Randy Julian (E13.15 Vice Chair) has created an ANIML SourceForge project and has put up a project web page with the presentations from the E13.15 meeting at PittCon.  The project home page is: http://animl.sourceforge.net.  There you can subscribe to the mailing lists, etc.  If you are new to XML or to the concept of using XML to represent analytical data, here are a few useful websites: http://www.w3c.org; http://www.xml.org; http://www.xml.com; http://www.xml101.com; ftp://caals.nist.gov/pub/download/; http://www.xml.org?xml registry?chemistry; http://www.gaml.org; http://www.xml.org?xml registry?chemistry.

If you have comments, agenda-item suggestions, etc., please let me know.  I hope to see you at ASTM in April.

Cheers,
Gary Kramer
Chair, ASTM E13.15



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