Memo CP-D/346
Date:
11 November 2002
To:
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From: M. Lammer
Subject: Proposals for CINDA 2001
1) Coding of references
In CINDA 2001, it is no more necessary to confine the parts of reference coding to certain
columns and thus to use different codes in CINDA and EXFOR, because there are 23 columns(instead of 14) available for coding references, and reference fields (code, volume, page) areseparated by commas as in EXFOR. Therefore I propose to use in the new CINDA system thesame reference codes as in EXFOR. This concerns in particular:• journals: CINDA coding should be e.g. NIM/A and not NIMA as in the old system,• conferences: 10 character codes, when used in EXFOR (like 70HELSINKI), should also beused in CINDA,• report codes, which were often truncated in CINDA to fit in the given field; typicalexamples are AAEC/AP-PR1986, or HEDL-TME78-100.
I believe that this is not only practical, but also reasonable to make full use of the advantagesof a relational data base. As a consequence, the special CINDA codes could be omitted inEXFOR Dictionaries 5 and 7.

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schwererzerkin2) Conversion from old CINDA filea) Fission quantities
When testing Viktor’s CINDA retrieval program for the new format, I also partially checked
the correctness and completeness of conversion from the old CINDA file. Although this was
not yet a thorough check of reaction –quantity combinations versus the old CINDA quantities,
I noticed that the following fission quantities (in the old CINDA format) can also be coded for
spontaneous fission and should therefore in these cases be converted with reaction (0,F):
NU, NUD, NUF, SFN, SFG, FPG, FPB, NFY, FRS, CHG. Therefore, in the conversion ofthese quantities, the energy field should be checked for “SPON”.
b) References
If the above proposal (1), to use the EXFOR codes for journals and conferences also inCINDA, is adopted, then the CINDA codes should be converted to the EXFOR codes, wheredifferent.
In the case of reports, frequently codes have been truncated by omission of hyphens or othersignificant parts of the codes, in order to squeeze in the code or the page number. It has
happened that, particularly with the introduction of using year-codes in the report number
fields, that the complete report code+number became too long for the field provided inCINDA. Therefore I propose to correct such simple coding errors in the conversion, whenpossible. I know that the situation is more complex, because often also wrong codes havebeen used. Therefore I will provide in a separate memo a list of such coding truncations
where corrections are simple and straightforward.