Report on the status of IT environment
SARSEMBAYEVA Aiganym, IMAI Shotaro, EBATA Shuichiro
Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University
KATŌ Kiyoshi, AIKAWA Masayuki
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
CHIBA Masaki
Sapporo-Gakuin University
OTUKA Naohiko
Nuclear Data Section, International Atomic Energy Agency

Abstract
In this report, we present a new EXFOR editor system based on the Java programming language. At the current stage we designed user interface of the new systemand executed CHEX checking tool. For convenience of compilers was implementedsuggestion field function for all dictionaries. Also we report the update of Asian
Nuclear Reaction Data Centres and JCPRG’s web page.

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Development of new EXFOR editor system

The International Network of the Nuclear Reaction Data Centres (NRDC) [1] is a world-wide
network of nuclear data centres organized under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA). It has been established to coordinate collection, compilation, and dissemination ofnuclear data on an international scale. Nuclear data have been utilized in the following many areas:
nuclear physics, astrophysics, nuclear engineering, medicine, etc. Since the early 1980s the Nuclear
Reaction Data Centre of Hokkaido University (JCPRG, formerly Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear
Reaction Data Group) [2] has been extensively active as a member of the network. Under theNRDC network, experimental nuclear reaction data are compiled and stored in the EXFOR library[3] in a unified format EXFOR (Exchange Format), which defines full details of the experimental
and bibliographical information.
In order to simplify EXFOR compilation, various editor systems have been developed within
the NRDC community. ANDEX [4] developed by IAEA-NDS (Vienna) and ERES by CNDC(Beijing) [5] are such systems developed in 1990s. An EXFOR editor developed by CNPD (Sarov)in 2000s is currently used by many EXFOR compilers. In JCPRG, a web-based nuclear data
input system HENDEL (Hyper Editor for Nuclear Data Exchange Libraries) was developed forcompilation of experimental nuclear reaction data in NRDF and EXFOR formats [6], and it has
been used as a standard compilation editor system at JCPRG since 2001 [7]. For beginners ofEXFOR compilation, the HENDEL system is very useful because it requires very limited knowledgeon EXFOR, and it is now also used by new EXFOR compilers in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Whilethe current HENDEL system is well designed to create outputs in both NRDF and EXFOR format,- 32 -some extra input forms for creation of NRDF outputs could be rather confusing for foreign compilers
who do not create NRDF outputs. Therefore a clone of HENDEL specialized for EXFOR outputs
is of our interest. Recently, we have started to develop a new HENDEL system using the Java
programming language for a standalone application type (GUI). Java is platform independent andan object-oriented programming language. Note that EXFOR compilers emphasized in a recent
EXFOR compilation workshop (6-10 Oct. 2014, Vienna) that it is important to develop an OS
independent EXFOR editor system [8]. We adopt Java Swing API for building GUI (graphicaluser interface) application.
A main page and Common Information section of the new HENDEL editor is shown in Fig.1
and Fig. 2. Contents of the editor will be organized in a Tree format. The contents of editor consist:
Bibliography, information commonly applied to all data sets of the EXFOR entry (Subentry 001),
and information applied to each data set of the EXFOR entry independently (Subentry 002, 003,..).
The Bibliography section consists of Title, Author, Aﬃliation and Reference. One of the newimprovements in this editor is that Aﬃliation and Reference part in the Bibliographic section canbe multiplied by ”+” button as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1: Main page of Java based Hendel system (Bibliography section)
Such a new HENDEL system is expected to be very useful for compilation not only in JCPRG
but also in foreign countries . We plan to develop the new HENDEL system by the following steps:• Design of the user interface;• Coding for realization of desired functions;• Inclusion of utilities (e.g., checking tools);• Data output in EXFOR format.

- 33 -Fig. 2: Common Information section
As we know in current Hendel system dictionaries shown in long line list. In new Hendel editor
system was developed ”quick find” function. For example, as shown in Fig. 3 by typing ”Tokyo”
in text field, suggestion field show candidates related to ”Tokyo”.

Fig. 3: Institute suggestion field
In new Hendel system was executed external CHEX checking tool as shown in Fig. 4Fig. 4: CHEX button
Data output in EXFOR format is underpreparation.

- 34 -2Web page of Asian Nuclear Reaction Data Centres

Asian nuclear reaction data centres collaborate to develop nuclear data activity in Asia. Currently
the seven data centres shown in Table 1 participate in the Asian Nuclear Reaction Data Centres
and collaborate mainly for compilation and exchange of experimental data by using the common
Exchange Format (EXFOR format) and NRDF format (Nuclear Reaction Data File) under theauspices of the IAEA Nuclear Data Section (NDS).

CountryJapan
Korea
India
China
Mongolia
Kazakhstan
Vietnam

Table 1: Asian Nuclear Reaction Data CentresCentre
Japan Nuclear Reaction Data Centre (JCPRG)
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
Chinese Nuclear Data Center (CNDC)
Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia (NRC)
Central Asian Nuclear Reaction Database (CA-NRDB)
Nuclear Research Institute, Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM)

Five centres in five countries, Japan, China, India, Korea and Kazakhstan hold annual workshop,
called as Asian Nuclear Reaction Database Development Workshop [9]. The aim of these meetingis to bring together Korean, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian, Kazakhstan, Vietnamese and Japanese
researchers for discussing future collaborations in Asian nuclear data activities based on recent
developments in each country.

Fig. 5: Web page of Asian Nuclear Reaction Data Centre
Topics covered in this workshop:• Asian Nuclear Data Center Activity;- 35 -• EXFOR Compilation;• Development of the Asian Nuclear Reaction Database Network;• Nuclear Reaction Experiments and Nuclear Reaction Evaluation;• Computational Simulation on Nucear reactions and Accelerator Facilities.
The 6th Asian Nuclear Reaction Database Development Workshop will be held at the Hokkaido
University in Sapporo, Japan on September 15-17, 2015.

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Report on renewal of JCPRG’s web page

JCPRG’s web page (http://www.jcprg.org) have been developed to message our activities to foreigncolleagues. Our web page was renewed in the last fiscal year [10]. We adopt WordPress [11]to construct the contents. WordPress provides us a flexible and straightforward environment tomaintenance, such as WYSIWYG editor on web browser, dynamic generation of web pages by PHP,extend features using plugins and useful templates. As the basic design, we use the new top visualand logo mark of JCPRG reported in [10]. Multilanguage (Japanese and English) environment isimplemented by using WPML plugin [12] which gives one-to-one corresponding and management
system of Japanese and English. Selection of each language pages is provided by a select box.

Fig. 6: Multilanguage selection box
A minimal contents are constructed and renewed in this fiscal year, and there are still remaining
contents on old web serves. We will merge all the contents and continue renewal of web service.

4SummaryIn the current stage, the design of the user interface and inclusion of utilities (e.g., checking tools)of the new HENDEL system have been completed.
Asian Nuclear Reaction Database Development Workshop 2015 will be held on September 1517, 2015. The series of workshops AASPP started in 2010 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo. Ever
since, this workshop series has succeeded in bringing Asian nuclear data researchers together toreview and discuss the status and prospects of the Asian nuclear data activities.
JCPRG’s web page is renewed using WordPress with multi-languages and the renewal will becontinued.

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