| Thank you James.
I have nothing substantive to add at this point.
Please list me as Stephen K. Burley
Thank you in advance and be safe Stephen Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil. University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
V (Morse Code: …*) Victory Against Fascism Thanks Brian, I'll edit those suggestions into the final report.
Hi James
Looks very good.
[1]
> preview volume ... drafts of almost all chapters
Perhaps "of most chapters"? I personally wouldn't describe around
three-quarters as "almost all".
[2] Is it worth mentioning that DOIs are being assigned to newly
published dictionaries, or is that still considered work in progress?
[3] Ongoing involvement by COMCIFS with "checkCIF for raw data" and
Raw Data Letters should be mentioned.
Regards
Brian
On 05/04/2024 03:01, James H via comcifs wrote:
> Dear COMCIFS,
>
> Please see a draft report for COMCIFS for 2023 below. As this was due at
> the end of last month, I'd like to send it off to Chester on Monday.
> With apologies for that short turnaround time, if there is any important
> CIF-related news that I've missed please advise by Monday morning and I
> will edit it in - I'm 100 words below the new 500 word allowance.
>
> thanks,
> James.
>
> COMCIFS Report 2023
> ===================
>
> COMCIFS is responsible for development and maintenance of the
> CIF standard.
>
> Membership
>
> COMCIFS consists of a relatively large number of ordinary members, and
> a few members who cast votes in the case that consensus is not
> reached. In 2023 Stephen Burley was nominated as a voting member to
> replace John Westbrook. Other voting members are James Hester
> (Chair), John Bollinger (Co-secretary), Brian McMahon (Co-secretary),
> and Herbert
> Bernstein.
>
> International Tables Volume G
>
> With some key dictionaries in flux and the fundamental chapters
> essentially complete, the focus of work on Volume G shifted to the
> latter chapters covering applications of CIF. A preview volume
> containing the current drafts of almost all chapters was exhibited at
> the IUCr meeting in Melbourne.
>
> Dictionary development
>
> After more than a decade, a new version of the core dictionary has
> been formally released. This is the first time the latest version on
> the IUCr website has been presented using the DDLm dictionary
> definition language and is the culmination of many years of work.
>
> Following this, a new dictionary for use with data spread over
> multiple data blocks has been published. This is part of ongoing work
> to allow CIF to handle more complex data sets containing related data
> originating from multiple sources in a rigorous way.
>
> In other news, both Quantum Crystallography and High Pressure
> commissions indicated interest at the IUCr meeting in developing
> discipline-specific dictionaries; the magnetic CIF dictionary saw
> significant additions from the Commission on Magnetic Structures; a
> working group was formed after the IUCr meeting to develop a crystal
> structure prediction dictionary; the imgCIF dictionary was placed on a
> firmer footing going forward after agreement to separate it out from
> the CBFLib distribution; and the powder dictionary expanded rapidly
> after many years of stasis.
>
> IUCr 2023
>
> COMCIFS ran a Dictionary Development Workshop prior to the IUCr
> meeting in an attempt to broaden the pool of contributors. Around a
> dozen attendees were introduced to the concepts behind CIF
> dictionaries and participated in live development of a toy dictionary
> using online tools.
>
> COMCIFS and CommDat were joint sponsors of a number of stimulating
> Microsymposia, and CIF was noted in a positive light by a number of
> speakers in other sessions.
>
> Looking forward
>
> In the run-up to publication of Volume G all dictionaries will see
> formal releases. Work is ongoing to finalise the non-core
> dictionaries, with particular focus on powder CIF.
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