When should small molecule crystallographers publish raw diffraction data?

Satellite Workshop of the XXV IUCr Congress

Following on from a recent survey of the community, this full-day workshop is aimed at: (1) educating those who generate and deal in crystallographic data on best practices in data management; (2) how to communicate those best practices to students and other novice users; (3) discussing current practices in data archival; and (4) exploring current and future use cases for archival of raw data.

Attendees will gain an appreciation of the importance of archiving raw data and an understanding of how to archive their own raw data effectively. The workshop will lay the groundwork for a large-scale community driven effort to standardize small-molecule raw data archival with a view to ensuring that best practice in the laboratory leads to appropriate and FAIR availability of raw data to the wider community. A key goal is to explore how to make this process seamless and integrated with current facility, research and publishing practices.

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