SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1989
STP18637S

Creating a Materials Data Base Builder and Producing Publications for Ceramic Phase Diagrams

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The Ceramics Phase Diagrams Data Center faced several problems in the early stages of developing a computer data base to distribute to the ceramics user community. The Data Center had to create and store data files containing full scientific notation, provide for transferring data to undesignated computer(s) from the computer on which the files were created, and provide for installation of the data on undetermined Data Base Management System(s) for user access. The solution was incorporated in programs developed in the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Standard Reference Data and expanded under the support of the American Ceramic Society. All information is expressed using only printable ASCII characters and is stored in dynamic arrays with all fixed length parameters encoded as program variables. Bibliographic and some chemical data for the next several volumes of Phase Diagrams for Ceramists are currently being stored in this form. The data are being manipulated to produce material in typeset form for the published volumes. They have also been transferred with no loss of information to a prototype data base for rapid retrieval.

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Ondik, HM
National Institute for Standards and Technology, and research associate, American Ceramic Society, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Messina, CG
National Institute for Standards and Technology, and research associate, American Ceramic Society, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
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Developed by Committee: E49
Pages: 304–314
DOI: 10.1520/STP18637S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5078-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-1191-2