In the past 100 years IUAPC has become well known for the development of nomenclature standards for chemicals and terminology for communication of chemically related concepts.  Initially published in IUPAC's Pure and Applied Chemistry (PAC), terminology recommendations have been incorporated into the IUPAC Color Books published by the divisions.  Subsequently, many terms from the color books have been incorporated into the Gold Book - the Compendium of Chemical Terminology.<br/><br/>While the work to date as been focused on the standardization of concept (term) definitions for human use, the aggregated set of all PAC recommendations on terminology constitutes a corpus of high quality definitions for entries into an ontology for use in computer representation of chemical concepts.  This is sorely needed at a time when there is a significant move toward machine learning approaches to understand science both within and outside chemistry.  With it chemical data scientists can envision and apply this 'common language' into their cheminformatics work, promoting interoperability in chemical data.<br/><br/>This paper will review the history of the PAC recommendations, the color books, and highlight how the existing guidelines for the development of terms supports the renovation of the terms for computer use.  The current update to the Gold Book website will be discussed (including machine processability) as well as future ontological representation of the terms.  Finally, this development will be highlighted as one of the most important in the next 100 years of IUPAC.

Renovating the IUPAC gold book for the digital era and the next 100 years

2019 Spring National Meeting

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