Workshop on Metadata for raw data from X-ray diffraction and other structural techniques

Organized by

IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group

Croatian Association of Crystallographers

Programme book

Saturday August 22 - Sunday August 23 2015

Hotel Park, Arupinum Hall, Rovinj, Croatia

This two-day Workshop is organised by the DDD Working Group (WG), appointed by the IUCr Executive Committee to define the need for and practicalities of routine deposition of primary experimental data in X-ray diffraction and related experiments. It will take the form of a two-day satellite of the 29th European Crystallographic Meeting with lectures from crystallographic practitioners, data management specialists and standards maintainers.

Objective:  As part of the continuing activities of the IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group, this workshop will seek to define the necessary metadata that needs to be captured and deposited alongside experimental diffraction images in order that such raw data may be subsequently re-evaluated or re-used in more detailed scientific studies. The workshop will also explore the metadata requirements of other structural experimental techniques used by crystallographers.

There is a public forum for discussion of the issues covered in this workshop at http://forums.iucr.org (and viewable in the 'Forum' tab below).

Acknowledgements: As the scope of this Workshop has broadened from its original conception, we are very grateful to various research institutes and universities and to CODATA for sending their staff to take part in this event. Support for technical services and associated staffing costs has been contributed by Dectris, IUC Journals, CODATA, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Bruker, FIZ Karlsruhe/ICSD, Oxford Cryosystems and Wiley, to whom we are very grateful, as well as to the IUCr. We are also very grateful to the Croatian Association of Crystallographers for their active help in securing the best possible Workshop to address this important topic.