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About the World Directory of Crystallographers

The World Directory of Crystallographers and of Other Scientists Employing Crystallographic Methods (WDC) is periodically published by the IUCr as a resource providing contact details and scientific interests of active crystallographic researchers.

Up to the 8th edition in 1990 only paper copies were produced but subsequently the situation changed considerably due to the rapid growth of computer networks. The 9th edition (WDC9) was the first one also accessible over the Internet. The entries were stored in the form of a database. Since the IUCr had by that time established its own format for crystallographic information, it was decided to use the same format, i.e. to store the data as STAR files (the same format used for Crystallographic Information Files, CIF). From these a qi database was created in 1995 to enable WDC to be interrogated through the Web and Tex files were created for the printing of the paper edition of the directory.

Internet use of the database has been very successful. The number of interrogations grew rapidly and a new relational database implementation was launched at the end of 2001. Since that time no hard-copy edition has been published.


Edition
Year
General Editor
Associate Editor/Regional Editors
Number of entries
Number of countries
 Publisher Comment
1
1957
W. Parrish

2255
52
 North American Philips Co. Inc.
 
2
1960
D. W. Smits

3557
54
 N. V. A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij
 
3
1965
D. W. Smits
G. Boom (Assistant Editor)
5037
51
 A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij N. V. 
4
1971
G. Boom
N. A. Mulder-Hoekstra (Assistant Editor)
6982
57
 A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij N. V.
 
5
1977
S. C. Abrahams
A. L. Bednowitz
7638
71
 Polycrystal Book Service
 First use of computerised typesetting system (IBM TERMTEXT/Format)
6
1981
A. L. Bednowitz

8174
68
 D. Reidel Publishing Company 
7
1986
A. L. Bednowitz
A. P. Segmüller
8968
69
 D. Reidel Publishing Company
 Typeset with IBM Document Composition Facility (GML-SCRIPT)
8
1990
E. N. Maslen
A. L. Bednowitz
9589
70
 Kluwer Academic Publishers 
9
1995
Y. Epelboin
G. Filippini,H. Hashizume, I. L. Torriani, W. L. Duax
7907
72
 Kluwer Academic Publishers First online database version: data collected in STAR format and typeset using ciftex
10
1997
Y. Epelboin
G. Filippini, H. Hashizume, I. L. Torriani, Y. Le Page
7959
74
 Kluwer Academic Publishers
 
11
2001
Y. Epelboin; from 2008 I. L. Torriani
G. Filippini, I. L. Torriani, K. Ogawa


  First electronic-only edition; all data entry via Web