SpecInfo on the Internet

Some small collections of spectroscopic data have been available on the internet virtually since its inception. At the end of 1999 the first database producer went on-line with a full web based spectroscopic database application. A close collaboration between LabControl in Cologne, Germany, and Chemical Concepts in Weinheim, Germany, has produced a stable browser-based application programmed in Java which allows - for the first time - the functionality of a workstation database client/server application through the use of the http protocol allowing upload of spectra and structures and access to over 660,000 data sets.