COMCIFS approval for imgcif dictionary version 1.0

[Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org>]

I am pleased to announce that the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the
CIF Standard (COMCIFS) has approved version 1.0 of the imgCIF dictionary for
use in the creation and interpretation of imgCIF and CBF data files.
Members of this list are invited to preview the release dictionary at
   ftp://ftp.iucr.org/pub/cif_img.dic
or in a navigable HTML version at
   http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/imgcif/cif_img_1.0.html

This early release is to allow members of the imgcif list to verify that
there are no major errors in this version. An official release notice will
be posted early in the New Year.

I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank Herbert
Bernstein, Andy Hammersley, Bob Sweet, Paul Ellis and the many other
participants at the Brookhaven workshop and in community discussion who have
brought this work to this stage.

Best regards to all.

Brian McMahon
Co-ordinating Secretary, COMCIFS