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Re: [dddwg] Please comment on the attached for ICSTI's InsightsSeries

John, Tom, and Brian,

As I am not actually on the committee, but am just Sol Gruner's stand-in for a 
possible meeting at the ACA, I don't have any background on the articles. 
However, possibly the following comment from an outside viewpoint may be useful.

I don't understand "Living publication" and am not sure it's a useful term. The 
first article talks about two things: (1) using deposited structure factors plus 
coordinates to display maps plus models and (2) inclusion of animations in Acta 
Cryst F papers. While both are useful, I fail to see how they are "living", and 
don't see much connection between (2) and the proposal to store raw diffraction 
data.

Marian Szebenyi
MacCHESS

John Helliwell wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> Please comment on the attached which we have drafted for ICSTI's
> Insights Series.
>
> In parallel with inviting your comments we are consulting the ICSTI
> Executive Secretary (and who in turn may well consult the President of
> ICSTI) as to its suitability; the biggest challenge being the technical
> crystallographic terms for the general audience that ICSTI members cover.
>
> As a reminder recall that ICSTI (the International Council for
> Scientific and Technical Information) embraces numerous national
> information science agencies, Librarians, agencies like DataCite, the
> Research Information Network, the ALPSP and as scientist delegates:-
> from IUPAC (Dr Wendy Warr) and IUPAP (Sir Roger Elliott), besides JRH
> for IUCr.
> Current full list:-
> http://www.icsti.org/spip.php?rubrique44
>
>
> We are striving to keep to an end of April 2012 delivery of these three
> articles to ICSTI if at all possible.
> There are still some polishings on referencing style and adding a movie
> clip, perhaps most easily via a weblink, that are obviously still to be
> done.
>
> Please reply with any comments before April 19th 2012.
> Thankyou in anticipation.
>
> Best wishes and regards,
> John, Tom and Brian
>
>
> Prof John R Helliwell DSc FInstP CPhys FRSC CChem F Soc Biol
> Chair School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Athena Swan Team.
> http://www.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/athena/index.html
>
>
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