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[dddwg] Progress report on activities of the Diffraction DataDeposition Working Group
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- Subject: [dddwg] Progress report on activities of the Diffraction DataDeposition Working Group
- From: Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:25:32 +0000
Dear Colleagues For your information and interest, a few recent developments are listed below: 1. An extensive discussion about the archiving of diffraction images for macromolecular crystallography took place recently on the CCP4 email list (ccp4bb), providing a useful survey of existing viewpoints within that field. The most relevant threads can be seen in the October and November public archives of ccp4bb at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ccp4bb.html, especially those with subject lines: * Archiving for fraud detection * Archiving Images for PDB Depositions * image compression * IUCr committees, depositing images * raw data deposition * To archive or not to archive, that's the question! We have asked Tom Terwiliger to write up a summary of these discussions and a synopsis/overview, for posting on the DDD WG forum and to the Commission on Biological Macromolecules. 2. It is already clear that moving raw data around over the Internet will constitute a major hurdle in the way of routine deposition to journals. We have therefore moved towards considering in detail the use in some cases of Institutional Repositories in providing for distributed (i.e. local permanent) storage. We have scheduled an information-finding meeting with local repository managers of the University of Manchester on 25 November. 3. Although IUCr Chester has not yet had time to perform a detailed analysis of the draft business case, we have posted the draft and some preliminary responses on the "Consultation" forum http://forums.iucr.org/viewforum.php?f=16 for your information and to invite your own early comments. Please do not disseminate this document more widely: it is still at a very early and tentative stage. 4. Alun Ashton at Diamond is trialling the getting of DOIs for about 100 raw data sets measured at Diamond Light Source. 5. It would be helpful to contact other SR sources besides Diamond, ESRF and other European centres, as well as European neutron sources (ISIS, ILL etc.) to assess their current level of committment. We would appreciate any specific information you may already hold about these Facilities; but we would also like to invite the representatives of the IUCr's Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Scattering Commissions to do this. 6. A Public Discussion component of our Forum has been launched (http://forums.iucr.org/viewforum.php?f=21) and has already proved popular in the sense that there have been many accesses from the wider community of the documents produced thus far by the DDD WG (notably stimulated by the extensive ccp4bb discussions). 7. We shall soon begin to draw up a programme for the Bergen workshop. Please let us know if you would like to make a presentation at that workshop on some specific topic. Best wishes John and Brian J. R. Helliwell and B. McMahon IUCr ICSTI and CODATA Representatives. _______________________________________________ dddwg mailing list dddwg@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/dddwg
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