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Please advise regarding a design of CIF dictionaries for materialproperties
- To: "Discussion list of the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the CIFStandard (COMCIFS)" <comcifs@iucr.org>
- Subject: Please advise regarding a design of CIF dictionaries for materialproperties
- From: Saulius Grazulis <grazulis@ibt.lt>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:30:30 +0300
- Organization: IBT
Dear COMCIFS members, I have a question about the design of domain-specific CIF dictionaries and would like to ask for your advise (and please accept my apologies and let me know if there is a better mailing list to ask for such questions). I am currently participating in the design of CIF dictionary for the Material Properties Open Database (MPOD) that intends to store all published experimentally measured crystal properties, such as elasticity tensors, dielectric permeability and so forth. All in all there should be about 50 different tensors. Each tensor can be measured at different temperatures or pressures. To preset data convenietly, for both humans and computers, we curretnly plan to put each tensors' measurements into a separate loop. Since tag names may not be repeated int the same data block, we will have to define similar measurement condition tags for each tensor: _prop_elastic_stiffness_temperature _prop_piezoelectric_temperature (_prop_ is a prefix registered for MPOD in the IUCr prefix list). Now, although this is only a small overhead in CIFs, it would be an overkill to specify all these tags separately in a dictionary. Thus, I would like to "contract" the definition of all _prop_<property>_temperature tags into one dictionary datablock: data_prop_temperature loop_ _name '_prop_elastic_stiffness_temperature' '_prop_piezoelectric_temperature' # Other names will follow and may be added in the future releases # of the dictionary _type numb _type_conditions esd _category prop # or prop_temperature ? or prop_elastic? _list both _description ; Specifies measurement temperature of a property in Kelvins. ; _example ; Please see below in this mail... ; Now, my questions are -- is there a problem if: a) tags of the same property are split into several loops in data CIFs? b) one dictionary data block describes names that are potentially in different categories (but otherwise have the same characteristics)? For example, would the dictionary entry above be considered correct if we declare _prop_elastic_stiffness_temperature to be in 'prop_elastic_stiffness' category, and _prop_piezoelectric_temperature to be in 'prop_piezoelectric' category, and still have one dictionary datablock to specify their properties? b') or the category is so inclusive that it describes data spanning several loops (like '_prop_' category in the above example)? c) data_... block name in the dictionary no longer matches tag name. I guess this should not be a problem... Is it? d) would it break anything if category name is not the prefix of the tag (e.g. declaring _prop_piezoelectric_temperature to have category _prop_temperature, to describe all temperature tags in one data block)? e) Any other anticipated problems? Sincerely yours, Saulius PS. We have toyed with two other representations, one putting all tensors into one loop, but they seem much worse (would require lots of '.' fields and would result in severely denormalised relational tables). PPS: data examples with the proposed tags: > The CIF would look like > > loop_ > _prop_elastic_stiffness_label > _prop_elastic_stiffness_temperature > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c11 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c12 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c13 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c22 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c23 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c33 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c44 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c55 > _prop_elastic_stiffness_c66 > Copper 273 375.1 -48.5 -48.5 375.1 -48.5 375.1 101.4 101.4 101.4 > Copper 293 375.1 -48.5 -48.5 375.1 -48.5 375.1 101.4 101.4 101.4 > Copper 313 375.1 -48.5 -48.5 375.1 -48.5 375.1 101.4 101.4 101.4 > > loop_ > _prop_piezoelectric_label > _prop_piezoelectric_temperature > _prop_piezoelectric_frequency > _prop_piezoelectric_d15 > _prop_piezoelectric_d16 > _prop_piezoelectric_d21 > PIN-PMN-PT 100.0 ? 2190 1022 511 > PIN-PMN-PT 100.0 ? 2190 1022 511 > PIN-PMN-PT 100.0 ? 2190 1022 511 > > and so on. S.G. -- Dr. Saulius Gražulis Institute of Biotechnology, Graiciuno 8 LT-02241 Vilnius, Lietuva (Lithuania) fax: (+370-5)-2602116 / phone (office): (+370-5)-2602556 mobile: (+370-684)-49802, (+370-614)-36366
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