A. Community Building - An effort to establish
communication among as many members of the worldwide SAS community
as possible. The Web site and the listserver are expected to play
key roles in this.
A.1 Create a roster of worldwide SAS
practitioners
A.2 Maintain the existing sa_scat listserver
as a medium for dissemination of relevant information and as a
tool for problem solving within the community.
A.3 Continue the development of the existing
Worldwide Web site as a focal point for people seeking
information about SAS.
A.4 Develop alliances with scientific print
media to publicize the commission's activities.
B. Meetings
B.1 - Maintain an orderly list of meetings
with sessions of interest to SAS practitioners. This list would
be published on the WWW site.
B.2 Provide whatever support we can to
international congresses specifically devoted to
SAS.
B.3 Assist planners of future IUCr Congresses
in planning sessions and activities relating to SAS.
C. Standardization
C.1 Compile references relating to use of
standards and direct experimental methods for calibrating
instruments for absolute intensity measurements.
C.2 Design and coordinate collaborative
research projects to assess the performance of SAS measurement
tools with regard to:
C.2.a absolute intensity
C.2.b instrumental resolution
C.2.c other effects as may be recognized as
contributing to bias in SAS results.
D. Software Assemble information, possibly
including ftp access, for software codes relating to:
D.1 Data formats currently in use for the
storage and exchange of SAS data.
D.2 Data reduction
D.3 Desmearing in both 1 and 2
dimensions
D.4 Data visualization
D.5 Modelling - including fitting and
simulations
E. Facilities
E.1 Compile a list of links to SAS activities
at existing laboratories that allow collaboration with
researchers outside their own organizations.
E.2 Assist in dissemination of information
regarding access to user facilities.
E.3 Monitor the design and development of SAS
capabilities at new and remodelled user facilities.
F. Archival publication
F.1 Explore unresolved issues regarding SAS
notation and nomenclature
F.2 Assist journal editors who seek guidance
on matters relating to publication of SAS work.
G. Education
G.1 Collect a list of references suitable for
use by operators of short courses.
G.2 Assemble a compendium of textbooks and
review articles for use in self-directed study by people who
need to learn SAS.
G.3 Encourage and, where possible, support the
development and dissemination of new educational material to
the SAS community.
