Re: Applying for a COMCIFS workshop at IUCr 2023

Looks good to me. You don't specifically mention writing methods
with dREL - worth an itemised topic?

Brian

On 15/07/2022 03:33, James H via comcifs wrote:
> Dear COMCIFS,
>
> The deadline for expressions of interest for IUCr2023 workshops is next
> Thursday.  One idea for a COMCIFS-backed workshop is a one day
> Dictionary Writing Workshop along the lines of the one held at Hyderabad
> back in 2015. My preference would be to focus on DDLm dictionaries, as
> the wwPDB seems to have a reasonable program of DDL2 dictionary
> definition development via topic-focused workshops. As a rough outline
> the following topics might be covered in the workshop:
>
> 1. Overview of CIF dictionaries (structure, available dictionaries, role
> in the crystallographic world, DDL1/DDL2/DDLm)
> 2. Writing and contributing a new data name definition for an existing
> dictionary (including introduction to DDLm attributes)
> 3. Designing and writing a new topic dictionary (from scratch to a
> complete dictionary)
> 4. Using Github for rapid, collaborative dictionary development
> 5. (?) Writing dictionary-aware CIF software
>
> Assuming there are no strong objections to this, I will put in the
> expression of interest next week.
>
> thanks,
> James.
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