The Joint Committee on Atomic and Molecular Physical Data started as a Task Force on Spectral Data Portability under the direction of Paul A. Wilks, Jr., at the Pittsburgh Conference (Pittcon) of 1983. The scope of JCAMP was originally as follows: 'The Joint Committee will generate, collect, evaluate, edit, and approve the publication and encourage the distribution of atomic and molecular physical data in suitable form to serve as references for pure compounds and mixtures'.The first objective of the Task Force was to design a standard file format for exchange of infrared spectra between vendor data systems that used different proprietary file formats. Data exchange capability was in demand by end-users who wished to transfer spectra between different spectrometers in their own and other laboratories.In 1988, the first JCAMP-DX spectroscopic data format was published (for IR). Since then the protocols for a range of techniques have been developed and published, the latest being for circular dichroism (2012) A review of the standards and prospects for the future will be highlighted

30 years of JCAMP-DX formats and still going strong

246th National Meeting (2013)

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