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From an old reference work to an advanced data
collection The Landolt-Börnstein Case
CONCERT 2000 Taipei, 3-4th October 2000 Gertraud
Griepke SPRINGER-VERLAG Heidelberg
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Authors of the 1st Edition, published 1883
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Short History of Landolt-Börnstein data
collection

• Founded nearly 120 years ago
• Need for selected and easily retrievable
  information
• At the scientists desk
• Today even more important
• Growing interdependence between
• Increasingly differentiated research fields

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What is Landolt-Börnstein?

• Landolt-Börnstein (LB) is a
• systematic and comprehensive
• collection of critically assessed data
• from all fields of
• physics
• physical chemistry
• geophysics
• astronomy
• material technology and
• engineering
• biophysics

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Landolt-Börnstein, 1st-6th Edition 1883-1980
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Landolt-Börnstein, 1st-6th Edition 1883-1980

• 1st edition (1883) 261 pages
• 6 editions published up to now
• each a thorougly revised version of the
  predecessor
• continously expanded to accommodate new data
• today 271 volumes
• editors and authors
• international team of
• more than 1000 well-known experts

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Landolt-Börnstein 1883-1999
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Landolt-Börnstein, New Series since 1961

• Due to the very scope of covered material
• No 7th edition in traditional, rigidly structure
• New publishing strategy since 1961
• New Series more flexible approach
• no formal schedule regarding content or date
• continued in open-ended-form
• adapting to developing needs of science

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Landolt-Börnstein, 1883-2001
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Landolt-Börnstein Groups
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II/24/B Molecular Constants
II. Molecules and Radicals
II/24/B Molecular Constants from Microwave,
Molecular Beam, and Sub-Doppler Laser
Spectroscopy - Introduction - Constants of
diamagnetic molecules - Asymmetric top
molecules
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Landolt-Börnstein Book and CD-ROM
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Landolt-Börnstein Book and CD-ROM
II. Molecules and Radicals
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Landolt-Börnstein Book and CD-ROM
Molecules and Radicals II/24/B
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Landolt-Börnstein Book and CD-ROM
Molecules and Radicals II/24/B
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Landolt-Börnstein Book and CD-ROM
Molecules and Radicals II/24/B
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Landolt-Börnstein Online Millennium-Campaign

• Data from the New Series 1961 - 1990
• 129 volumes online (out of 271 volumes)
• ca. 80.000 pdf-Seiten online available
• Integration to the new LINK Search
• Access via table of contents
• Free test access when registered
• (User ID laboe, passwort mille)
• (http//link.springer.de/series/lb/reg_form.htm)

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Project-concept 2000 Landolt Börnstein

• Implementation in LINK
• Marketing campaign for agencies, subscribers
  and new customers
• free test access during the Millennium Campaign
• Preparation of data after 1990
• Price- and Marketing plan for 2001
• Connection to AI Services

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Projekt concept 2001

• Landolt-Börnstein online as inhouse-system for
  big companies
• pay per view
• Integration of Indices
• Integration of existing CD-ROMs

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Landolt-Börnstein Online

• Problems
• No electronic data
• Chapter with more than 100 pages
• Very big table of contents
• Solutions
• Scanned pages gt pdf-Data
• Division of big pdf-files with AppendPDF in
  sub-chapters (size of data lt 1,5 MB)
• Java-script and frames-structure creates
  clearness