Abstract: The navigator sites for Intend chemical resources and chemical vital community sites are briefly outlined. Besides as a basic component in a virtual community site and merely providing hyperlinks to other sites, a navigator may accumulate knowledge about information sources, users experiences and attract loyalty of users, taking ChIN as an example. Moreover, there are similar goal and approaches in the silo managing for a navigator and navigator and a virtual community.ChIN is becoming a widely accepted Internet chemical resources navigator in China and might be evolved into a virtual community site in future.

摘要： 本文在介绍化学领域的Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ化学资源导航系统和虚拟社区发展现状的基础上，讨论Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ化学化工资源导航系统与虚拟社区之间的关系，并通过一个Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ化学化工资源导航系统ＣｈＩＮ的发展，从系统的内容、工具和用户群等方面来探讨一个被广泛使用的导航系统可能为建立Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ化学化工虚拟社区奠定良好的基础。