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C O D A T A

Working Group: UV/Vis+ Spectra Data Base

As approved by the CODATA Executive Committee Meeting, Paris, April 2005
Renewal approved by the CODATA Executive Committee, Paris, April 2007

View up-to-date information at http://www.uv-spectra.de/

In April 2005 the CODATA Working Group “UV/Vis+ Spectra Data Base” was established by the CODATA Executive Committee (Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science, ICSU) under the chairmanship of the CODATA President Prof. Dr. Shuichi Iwata.

The work of the CODATA working group is based on the "UV/Vis Spectra Data Base" (www.uv-spectra.de) which is on-line since August 2000. The "UV/Vis Spectra Data Base" is operated as an Open-Access database in accordance with the definitions and the regulations of the CSPR Assessment Panel on Scientific Data and Information [1].

The “+” in the name of the new database stands for the extension of the wavelength range (EUV-NIR), the provision of software and the integration of additional spectral data and information (e.g. SUMER Spectral Atlas of Solar Coronal Features, Dr. Curdt, MPI für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau; Daily Solar Spectral Irradiances, 1975-2004, Dr. Lean, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA; etc.)

Another important task of the working group is the data and information rescue. Many types of data, including extant “historical” data, are not being used for research because they are not available in digital formats and they are in danger of being lost.

There are both resource and technical limitations to data access in many parts of the world that not only make it difficult to conduct research, but also interfere with the collection of new data. This problem, which is called “digital divide”, is most evident in low- and mediumincome (industrialized) countries. The task of the CODATA working group is to reduce these limitations.

Current Members:

Erich Putz (Chair), University of Graz, Austria
Gerd K. Hartmann (Co-Chair), science-softCon, Germany
Andreas Noelle (Secretary), science-softCon, Germany
Hebe Cremades, NASA-GSFC, USA
Cornelia Martinecz, Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Gabi Pfister, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Emmanuel Ukpebor, University of Benin, Nigeria

[1] International Council for Science, 2004, ICSU Report of the CSPR Assessment Panel on Data and Information; ISBN 0-930357-60-4