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[dddwg] Reminder of task set to IUCr Commissions.....
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- From: John Helliwell <john.helliwell@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:46:56 +0000
Dear Colleagues
On October 27th 2011 it will be two months since we met in Madrid to launch the IUCr formal discussions on Diffraction Data Deposition. You received the Minutes of our IUCr Madrid meeting in mid September. By the end of October 2011 can Commission Chairs or representatives please report on your IUCr Commission's progress with assembling exemplar articles and associated experimental diffraction or scattering data? The idea at this stage is to identify a small number of articles recently published (or currently in production) that are representative of the experimental techniques used within your Commission, and to provide to the Chester editorial office a copy of the raw data sets collected during the experiment and used to produce the structural models or other evidence discussed in the article. If possible, by that date please provide to Brian McMahon (bm@iucr.org) a reference to the selected article(s) and either a copy of the data sets or (if they are large but available from a publicly accessible repository) information about how to access them. Note that these exemplar data sets might not be published as supplementary information at this time (that will depend on file size and other technical considerations), but they will be invaluable in helping to determine how the journals would establish a robust system for handling such data sets in future. Please report on your progress in this effort to the IUCr Forum http://forums.iucr.org/viewforum.php?f=16. If you have not already registered for this Forum please do so as soon as possible. One of us (JRH) has been keeping weekly snapshots of the Forum discussion screen and clearly there is a good level of activity in reading our Forum pages thus far. I would also like to report that a draft Business Case that I prepared for IUCr journals to handle diffraction data images deposition with each article submission has been sent to the Editorial Office and is receiving detailed consideration. It is likely that some discussion arising from this initial draft will soon be started in the Forum. Among issues that need to be addressed are the relative costs, benefits and practicalities of hosting large data sets in the publishing environment as against working with an external service provider (ideally some existing crystallographic data handling agency). Best wishes and regards, Yours sincerely, John and Brian J R Helliwell B McMahon IUCr ICSTI and IUCr CODATA Representatives |
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