As digital research tools and cheminformatics methods attain ever-greater prominence in 21st-century chemistry, chemical information literacy has become a pressing challenge.  The chemistry research community has engaged in more than a century of capturing, representing, organizing and re-using chemical principles, data and expert interpretation through IUPAC and other national and international initiatives.  The history of chemical information and machine documentation is an enormous untapped resource in better understanding current challenges in the design of chemical information systems and chemistry educational programming.  The authors are engaged in developing interactive online teaching modules using change over time in systematic nomenclature and machine representation.  These tools will help chemistry students unlock the power of information regimes as scientific instruments and directly engage in mapping historically-informed best practices in chemical information notation.

Leveraging history to develop community sourced best practices in chemical information systems development: An interactive online teaching module

248th National Meeting (2014)

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