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Compilation responsibilities as revised 2006

Attached is the summary of the compilation scope and responsibilities as discussed and revised atthe 2006 NRDC meeting. It also includes some corrections concerning the journal scanning
coverage which were clarified in e-mails after the meeting.
This summary is included also in the meeting report INDC(NDS)-0503; it is distributed herewith
also as a CP memo for easy reference.

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WP 2006-13 (Rev. 2)

Review of Compilation Scope and Responsibilities
Review of Compilation Scope(as updated at the 2006 NRDC Meeting and finalized on 30 November 2006)
General categories
Category

Data typeA - Compulsory
compilation

All experimental data for incident projectile energy ≤ 1 GeV
and projectiles with A ≤ 12, unless listed in Cat. B;
and data measured in inverse kinematics, which fulfill thesecriteria when target and projectile are exchanged.
For photonuclear data compilation is highly recommended.
Completeness should be achieved in particular forphotoneutron and photofission data.

B - Voluntary compilation

Neutron- or charged-particle data with Ein > 1 GeV;
Heavy ion data for projectiles with A > 12;
Vector and tensor polarization data;
Kerma factors (integral data only)

C - Separate transmission

Other data types, as specified in the table below

Separate Transmission Series
CIC *)

CentreData types

J

JCPRG

Charged-particle nuclear data for projectiles with nonpositive
baryon number from all parts of the world.

V (extinct)

NDS

Evaluated neutron data*) Centre Identification Character

2Review of Compilation Responsibilities(as updated at the 2006 NRDC Meeting)Centre
NNDC

Basic responsibilityNeutron data and CPND from USA andCanada

Additional compilation
Photonuclear data (coordinatedby CDFE)

NEA-DB

Neutron data from NEA countries

CPND (coordinated by NDS)

NDS

Neutron data and CPND from “rest of theworld” (areas not covered otherwise)

CJD

Neutron data from former SovietUnion (except Ukraine)

CAJAD

CPND from former Soviet Union (exceptUkraine)

CDFE

Photonuclear data

CNDC

Neutron data and CPND from China(entries submitted through NDS)JCPRG

CPND and photonuclear data from JapanATOMKI

CPND from ATOMKI and data measured incooperation with Juelich or with Free Univ.
Brussels (entries submitted through NDS)

UkrNDC

Neutron data and CPND from Ukraine(entries submitted through NDS)

RFNC

CPND on light nuclei, coordinated withother centers

Indiancompilation
activity *Neutron data and CPND from India,
coordinated and assisted by NDS

CPND from “rest of the world”(coordinated by NDS)

CPND for projectiles withnonpositive baryon number
from all parts of the world.

Photonuclear data (coordinatedby CDFE)

Special case: Two or more institutions from different service areas:
If two institutions from different service areas are involved, the primary institution defines theresponsible centre. See LEXFOR, Institutes for definition of primary institution.
LEXFOR / Institutes /Compilation Responsibility
If two or more institutions of different service areas are involved, the following rules shalldetermine the centre responsible.
1. The institute containing the facility used, if at least one of the authors belongs to thatfacility, should determine the center responsible.
2. If an itinerant group uses the facility of another institution, the institute of the primary
investigator of the itinerant group shall determine the centre responsible.
*coordinated by Dr. S. Ganesan, BARC., Mumbai, India

33. In an ambiguous case, the institution from which one is most likely to obtain further
information on the experiment should be used to determine the centre responsible.
If a publication reports the results of different experiments undertaken at different laboratories
or measured at one laboratory and subsequently analyzed at another laboratory, and either thelaboratories are in different areas, or the incident-projectile is of a different type (i.e., neutron,
charged particle, or photon), the results are compiled in separate entries by the centre
responsible for the data. The entries may be linked using the STATUS code COREL; seeStatus (Interdependent Data).
2004 NRDC Meeting, Conclusion C17:
If several institutes and several experimental facilities are involved in an experiment, the firstauthor of the paper will determine the Centre responsible for the EXFOR compilation.
Consolidated Summary:
If several institutes of different service areas are involved, the following rules determine thecompilation responsibility:
1) The institute of the facility used, if at least one author is from this institute. If an itinerantgroup used the facility, the main investigator of this group determines the centreresponsible.
2) If facilities of different laboratories from different service areas are used, the institution
from which it is most likely to obtain further information on the experiment should
determine the centre responsible. This will normally be the corresponding author, or, if
there is some doubt, the first author of the publication. In all such cases the other affected
centre and NDS must be contacted before compilation to avoid duplication.
3) If separate experiments from different service areas with clearly separated results arereported in the same paper, the results should be compiled as separate entries. This
separation is obligatory for different projectile types (neutron, charged particle, photon).
In all such cases cross references to the other entry must be given.

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Coverage of conferences (added at 2006 NRDC meeting)To speed up the coverage of conference proceedings, the following steps are taken:• If the proceedings were published in a scanned journal, they will be scanned by NDS;
• If the proceedings are published in a separate book, the responsibility for scanning will be
as follows:♦ if a staff member of one of the NRDC Centres is among the participants, this Centre
will send to NDS a list of references relevant to EXFOR within two months after theconference;♦ if no data centre participates in the conference, NDS takes the responsibility to checkonce per month the AIP website and NDS can ask any Centre to scan theseproceedings.
Coverage of major journals

Coverage of major journals by data centre (updated November 2006):
PR/CNNDC
PRL
NNDC
NSE
NNDC
ARI
NDS
NP/A
NDS
CNP
NDS
NIM/A and B NDS
PL/B
NDS
YF
CAJAD
EPJ
CAJAD
IZV
CNPD
YK
CJD
ANE
NEA
RCA
NEA
AEJ
JCPRG
NST
JCPRG
NSTS
JCPRG
AHP
ATOMKIJRNATOMKIJRN/L
ATOMKI
Each responsible Centre will rapidly assess the contents of an issue of the above journals, andcommunicate rapidly with relevant compilation centres and NDS to point out their need tocompile as soon as possible. Each responsible Centre will check this list on the Compilation
Status website.
These lists of references must be written in a way that makes it clear which Centre isresponsible for compilation. Therefore, we propose the following form for the Coveragecontrol system:
1.

Journal name, volume, issue, page, year, laboratory. Or it can be NSR code andlaboratory, data type (neutron / charged particle / Photonuclear), CINDA code fromdictionary 45 and representation of the data (table or graphic).

2.

NDS should receive these lists within one month after issue of publication.

5Coverage of Chinese journals by CNDC (added at 2006 NRDC meeting)

CNDC agreed to cover the following Chinese journals on a regular basis, and to compile all
relevant papers in EXFOR:
Dictionary 5code

Journal title

Language

CST

Atomic Energy Science and Technology

ChineseNPR (to beadded)

Nuclear Physics Review

ChinesePHE

High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics

Chinese

HFH

Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemistry

ChineseNTC

Nuclear Techniques

ChineseCPL

Chinese Physics Letters

EnglishCNDP

Communication of Nuclear Data Progress

EnglishCNST

Nuclear Science and Techniques

EnglishASI

Acta Physica Sinica

EnglishCPH

Chinese Physics

English6Speeding up compilation of new publications

1.

For neutron data, the responsibility for compilation in areas 1, 2, 3, 4 should be clear(remember that neutron data from Japan belong to area 2). Nevertheless, the responsible
centres should inform NDS about their compilation plans.

2.

For CPND, the reference has to be booked for compilation by the responsible Centre
within one month after publication (or after the centre was informed by another centre
covering the particular journal). Usually, NDS sends the list of publications that arerelevant for compilation within two weeks after publication.

3.

To avoid duplications, it is preferable to send the plan of compilations to NDS in theform: reference, EXFOR number , laboratory, where experiment was done.

4.

The references relevant to EXFOR have to be included in EXFOR within six months
after publication. If there is no possibility to receive data from the author (no reply to email), the compiler can digitize curves and point out under STATUS that there was noresponse from the author.

5.

After this period, NDS will take the responsibility for compilation of such papers (orassign to another centre). Any nuclear data centre is free to send their own
compilation proposals about the list of delayed articles after six months. This list isavailable from the EXFOR compilation control webpage (see column “Any”).

6.

Photonuclear data are coordinated by CDFE. At present, apart from CDFE, only NNDC,
NDS and JCPRG have photonuclear data series (L, G, and K, respectively). All
correspondence about compilation of photonuclear data should go to CDFE with copyto NDS.

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