This presentation will describe an Open Education Resource (OER) designed to help chemists, educators and students find information on, and applications of, the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI). InChI is a machine readable semantic identifier based on layered line notation for the representation of chemical structures that was developed by IUPAC and NIST. InChI is an open and freely available identifier, with the standard InChI and its correlative hashed key arguably being the new nomenclature of the digital area, enabling a wide variety of 21st century semantic web applications and activities that should be utilized in chemical education and the practice of chemistry. Usage of the World Wide Web has become ubiquitous by practicing chemists in the pursuit of science, and yet few take advantage of semantic features that advances like InChI enable, instead navigating the web the same way they would a book, browsing from one webpage to another. In 2017 the InChI Trust initiated a working group to tackle issues related to the adoption of InChI by the greater practicing community of chemists, and the InChI OER is the first project of this working group. Using the InChI OER, chemists, educators and students can find resources on InChI, including downloadable classroom and reference materials such as modifiable documents and spreadsheets. This presentation will describe the InChI Open Education Resource designed to help chemists, educators and students find information about and applications based on the InChI standard.

InChI open education resource (OER)

2019 Fall National Meeting

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