Development of the Chemical Analysis Metadata Platform (ChAMP) is a joint project between the University of North Florida and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In this project, we focused on the development of guidelines for organization, representation, and annotation of analytical science information, based around the definition of a standard set of metadata that can be used to annotate reports of chemical analysis methodologies.<br/> <br/>Rather than define a standard that might be implemented across the board (the one size fits all approach) the platform describes metadata and data types, unique identifiers, controlled vocabularies (where appropriate), an ontology, and implementation guidelines such that any group, society, or company can use ChAMP as the basis for development of a standard that fits their needs.  In this way, the same metadata items are identified uniformly across different standards allowing for searching and comparison across records from any and all standards based on ChAMP. This paper reports on the progress to date on ChAMP development.<br/>

Building a standard for standards: The ChAMP project

249th National Meeting (2015)

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