Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:05:39 +0100
From: "Georges Audi (Amdc)" <amdc.audi@gmail.com>
To: Recipients of AMDC bulletin <audi@csnsm.in2p3.fr>
Subject: News from the Atomic Mass Data Center (AMDC)

    STRUCTURE OF THE AME-FUTURE            by Georges Audi

    The AME-Future project is now running on its new track.
    The IMP at Lanzhou has sent Dr. WANG Meng for three years
    to Orsay to learn the tools and the know-hows of the AME
    as they have been established since several decades by
    Aaldert H. Wapstra and myself (GA). The immediate plan is
    to have a new Mass Table published in 2012 or early 2013.

    The AME-Future project is defining a new working structure
    as a collaborative effort centered around a coordinator.
    In a first period, i.e. until the next publication, I will
    play this rôle. My task will be, besides evaluating data,
    to set-up a system for integrating the evaluations done by the
    various collaborators into a master-file.
    The new ideas are being presently tested, but we still have
    to define the details and make it work on full scale.
    At the same time, I am teaching Dr. WANG Meng the evaluation
    and the coordinator work.
    After the publication of the 2012-2013 tables, he will be the
    coordinator of the future work, and, if needed and desirable,
    I will play the rôle of consultant.

    Five institutions have already showed interest in participating
    in the above mentioned collaborative effort, in view of the
    production of the next mass table. Others are welcome to join.
    The requirements are to have one experienced person devoting
    20% of his FTE to the project and attending two one-week
    courses in Orsay.


    ISOLTRAP DATABASE ANNOUNCEMENT        by Magdalena Kowalska

    The ISOLTRAP team is pleased to announce that the database
    with all published masses investigated with ISOLTRAP is now
    online. The database is accessible from the ISOLTRAP website
        (http://www.cern.ch/isoltrap).
    It includes not only over 400 published mass values obtained
    with ISOLTRAP and the corresponding Ame2003 values, but also
    direct links to the articles (on the publisher websites)
    where the data were published.