Discussion list of the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS)
comcifs is the discussion list of the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS).
The archive of comcifs is located at the URL:
http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/lists/comcifs-l/
comcifs is unmoderated, private and owned by the Coordinating Secretary of COMCIFS. Subscribers to the list are strictly limited to members and observers of COMCIFS and those IUCr officials (viz. President, General Secretary and Treasurer, and Executive Secretary) who request membership of the list.
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Brian McMahon, COMCIFS Coordinating Secretary, 3 September 1998
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Threads are arranged in reverse order (most recent at the top), but the messages within each thread are arranged by date.
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- Report for 2024 (James H via comcifs)
- Fwd: IUCr 2026 keynote proposal on crystal data standards (James H via comcifs)
- Proposals for IUCr2026 in Calgary (James H via comcifs)
- COMCIFS IPC member for IUCr 2026 (James H via comcifs)
- Results of voting on the default licence for CIF dictionaries (James H via comcifs)
- Fwd: Voting in COMCIFS? (James H via comcifs)
- Belated welcome to two new voting members (James H via comcifs)
- COMCIFS 2023 draft report for your consideration (James H via comcifs)
- Assigning CC-BY-4.0 licence to CIF dictionaries (James H via comcifs)
- Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil. via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil. via comcifs
- Brian McMahon via comcifs
- Herbert J. Bernstein via comcifs
- Bollinger, John via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Herbert J. Bernstein via comcifs
- Peter Murray-Rust via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Peter Murray-Rust via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Herbert J. Bernstein via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil. via comcifs
- Bollinger, John via comcifs
- Herbert J. Bernstein via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Herbert J. Bernstein via comcifs
- James H via comcifs
- Peter Murray-Rust via comcifs
- New dictionary: multiblock CIF (James H via comcifs)
- Dictionary Writing Workshop (Brian McMahon via comcifs)
- Adding theoretical structure dictionaries to the COMCIFS stable (James H via comcifs)
- Annual report 2022 (James H via comcifs)
- Dictionary release policy (James H via comcifs)
- Our Zenodo community: update to policy for yourinformation/consideration (James H)
- Applying for a COMCIFS workshop at IUCr 2023 (James H)
- Fwd: Wrap-up of IPC? (James H)
- COMCIFS draft report 2021 (James H)
- Representative to NeXus international advisory committee (James H)
- Our IUCr 2023 IPC representative is Saulius Grazulis (James H)
- Suggestions for microsymposium topics for IUCr 2023 (James H)
- John Westbrook (Brian McMahon)
- Minutes of 2021 COMCIFS meeting (Brian McMahon)
- Dictionary working groups (James H)
- Revitalising COMCIFS (James H)
- COMCIFS report for 2020 (James H)
- Updating list of _audit.schema (James Hester)
- Renewal of STAR File trademark registration (Brian McMahon)
- Assigning DOIs to dictionaries (James Hester)
- Draft 2019 report for IUCr exec (James Hester)
- Re: [Hdrmx-bb] Example Nexus file for XFEL data (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- COMCIFS Dictionary Writing Workshop 2017 (Brian McMahon)
- COMCIFS nominates Herbert Bernstein as representative to NIAC (James Hester)
- Nominating delegate to NIAC (James Hester)
- COMCIFS 2018 draft report (James Hester)
- Theorem proving / reasoning using CIF dictionaries (Peter Murray-Rust)
- Message not available
- Peter Murray-Rust
- James Hester
- Peter Murray-Rust
- 2017 COMCIFS report (James Hester)
- Topology CIF dictionary for discussion and review (James Hester)
- Standardising inter-block linking (James Hester)
- Proposal to regulate markup in CIF files (James Hester)
- COMCIFS open meeting 1.15pm Fri 25th Aug MR 2.06 (James Hester)
- COMCIFS open meeting in Hyderabad 25th August 13:05 MR 2.06 (James Hester)
- Request for discussion: dual-version CIF conformance (Bollinger, John C)
- Information on _audit.schema/formalism to be distributed to CIFprogrammers (James Hester)
- Dictionary writing workshop in Hyderabad (James Hester)
- CIF-JSON draft standard (James Hester)
- A managed phase-out of DDL1 dictionaries (James Hester)
- COMCIFS approval of proposal to flag dataname redefinition (James Hester)
- Draft COMCIFS 2016 report (James Hester)
- Bringing spectroscopy into the COMCIFS fold (James Hester)
- Dictionary writing workshop at Hyderabad (James Hester)
- Discussion paper on allowing redefinition of datanames in CIF (James Hester)
- DDLm restraints dictionary now available (James Hester)
- Approval of remaining DDLm dictionaries (James Hester)
- DDLm Powder CIF dictionary for your approval (James Hester)
- New magnetic CIF dictionary for your approval (James Hester)
- DDLm cif_core for your approval (James Hester)
- Timetable for DDLm dictionary approval (James Hester)
- 2015 report (James Hester)
- Material for COMCIFS annual report (James Hester)
- CIF2 in print; forum now available (James Hester)
- Any suggestions for Hyderabad 2017 MS topics? (James Hester)
- Updating COMCIFS' approach to dictionaries (James Hester)
- CIFAPI forum now open (James Hester)
- Draft minutes from Madrid closed meetings (James Hester)
- Please advise regarding a design of CIF dictionaries for materialproperties (Saulius Grazulis)
- Confirmation of meeting rooms for two COMCIFS closed meetings (James Hester)
- Tentative agenda for COMCIFS closed meetings Aug 28th and Aug 29th (James Hester)
- COMCIFS voting membership for the next triennium (James Hester)
- Date of first COMCIFS closed meeting moved to Aug 28th (James Hester)
- Moving first closed meeting to Sunday 28th August (James Hester)
- Finding nemo.dic (Brian McMahon)
- Release of the cif_core_restraints dictionary and superscript mark up (Matthew Towler)
- COMCIFS voting membership for 2011-2014 (James Hester)
- COMCIFS at the Madrid IUCr meeting (James Hester)
- Core CIF dictionary version 2.4.2 released (Brian McMahon)
- Additional fast-track definitions for Core 2.4.2 (Brian McMahon)
- Recent JISC conference (Brian McMahon)
- Revised CIF syntax guidelines (James Hester)
- Additional update to core dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- Fwd: Items for fast track COMCIFS approval (James Hester)
- Madrid 2011 (James Hester)
- Re: Advice on COMCIFS policy regarding compatibility of CIF syntaxwith other domains (Nick Spadaccini)
- Restraints CIF dictionary version 1.0 released (Brian McMahon)
- Message not available
- David Brown
- Brian McMahon
- Advice on COMCIFS policy regarding compatibility of CIF syntax withother domains (James Hester)
- Peter Murray-Rust
- James Hester
- Peter Murray-Rust
- James Hester
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Message not available
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Bollinger, John C
- Brian McMahon
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Matthew Towler
- Bollinger, John C
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Message not available
- James Hester
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Bollinger, John C
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- James Hester
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- James Hester
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Bollinger, John C
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- James Hester
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Bollinger, John C
- Doug
- Peter Murray-Rust
- 2010 COMCIFS annual report - request for information (James Hester)
- Preserving CIF1 data sets (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Resignation of voting member (James Hester)
- Result of CIF2 vote (James Hester)
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- James Hester
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Message not available
- James Hester
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- CIF2 syntax document for COMCIFS approval (James Hester)
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- James Hester
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Brian McMahon
- John Westbrook
- Peter Murray-Rust
- kaduk kaduk
- Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- James Hester
- Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Core restraints dictionary v 0.0.3 for COMCIFS approval (James Hester)
- Request for a vote on a motion (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Core dictionary 2.4.1 released (James Hester)
- Fast track dictionary definition and update procedures now in place (James Hester)
- Restraints dictionary submitted for approval (James Hester)
- Draft COMCIFS report 2009 (James Hester)
- Material for COMCIFS 2009 report (James Hester)
- Revised fast-track proposal on wavelength passes DMG review (James Hester)
- Variants (James Hester)
- New fast-track definition proposal:_diffrn_radiation_wavelength_nominal (James Hester)
- New chair of pdCIF DMG (James Hester)
- Global section in CIF headers (Joe Krahn)
- Formation of a DDLm working group (James Hester)
- Re: Reactivating mmCIF DMG (was discussion of dictionary update procedure) (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Procedure for approving small dictionary updates (James Hester)
- Draft Annual Report (James Hester)
- Material for Annual Report to the Executive (James Hester)
- IUCr CIF website upgrade (Brian McMahon)
- DDLm implementation discussion (David Brown)
- A DDLm problem (David Brown)
- As per your email (Nick Spadaccini)
- DDLm, dREL, images and NeXus (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- symCIF (James Hester)
- COMCIFS housekeeping (James Hester)
- An updated symmetry dictionary (James Hester)
- Minutes of COMCIFS Closed Meetings in Osaka (James Hester)
- Latest draft DDLm documents (Brian McMahon)
- Draft agenda of closed COMCIFS meeting in Osaka (David Brown)
- Summary of comments on the CIF DDLm Discussion paper (David Brown)
- Important CIF items for discussion (David Brown)
- COMCIFS events at the IUCr Congress in Osaka (David Brown)
- Draft Triennial report of COMCIFS (David Brown)
- Annual roport of COMCIFS for 2007 (David Brown)
- Announcement: CoreCIF dictionary version 2.4 released (Brian McMahon)
- COMCIFS annual report for 2007 (draft) (David Brown)
- Annual report of COMCIFS (draft) (David Brown)
- COMCIFS annual report to the IUCr Executive (David Brown)
- New version of CIF Core dictionary (2.4) (Brian McMahon)
- COMCIFS program for Osaka (David Brown)
- Minor upgrade to CIF core dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- COMCIFS Annual Report for 2006 (David Brown)
- Posting DDLm on the IUCr CIF web site (David Brown)
- Standard X- name prefix? (Joe Krahn)
- ESD notation (Joe Krahn)
- Data names with primitive type info? (Joe Krahn)
- Time to drop STAR? (Joe Krahn)
- COMCIFS Annual Report for 2006 (draft) (David Brown)
- Problems with CIF BNF (Joe Krahn)
- Escape code issues (Joe Krahn)
- General CIF/STAR feature questions (Joe Krahn)
- Opinions on comments as part of the content (Joe Krahn)
- New accent modifier types? (Joe Krahn)
- dictionary data-name global? (Joe Krahn)
- Accent escape sequences (Joe Krahn)
- Annual Report for 2005 (David Brown)
- Announcing the rfCIF dictionary (David Brown)
- Approval of revised terms of reference (David Brown)
- COMCIFS adopts DDL1 (David Brown)
- COMCIFS Terms of Reference (David Brown)
- COMCIFS adoption of DDL1 (David Brown)
- Proposed COMCIFS terms of reference (David Brown)
- Minutes of the closed COMCIFS meeting in Florence (David Brown)
- Draft Minutes of the closed COMCIFS meetings (David Brown)
- Draft minutes of the Closed COMCIFS meeting at Florence (David Brown)
- Agenda for closed COMCIFS meeting (David Brown)
- Announcement: release of new editions of CIF dictionaries (Brian McMahon)
- Denver conference on Digital Scientific Libraries (David Brown)
- Items for the Agenda of the COMCIFS closed meeting (David Brown)
- New item for the core CIF dictionary? (Brian McMahon)
- CIF dictionary register dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- MIF and NMR_STAR dictionaries (Doug du Boulay)
- CIF formal specification (Brian McMahon)
- COMCIFS Annual Report for 2004 (David Brown)
- Draft Annual report of COMCIFS for 2004 (David Brown)
- Florence Congress (David Brown)
- Re: Provence and property rights (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- CIF Infoset (Peter Murray-Rust)
- COMCIFS open meeting a Florence (David Brown)
- Howard Flack
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Dr P. Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Dr P. Murray-Rust
- Nick Spadaccini
- Dr P. Murray-Rust
- David Brown
- Dr P. Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Dr P. Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Dr P. Murray-Rust
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Brian McMahon
- Peter Murray-Rust
- CIF_rho Dictionary Maintenance Group. (I. David Brown)
- IUPAC workshop on XML and IChI (I. David Brown)
- CIF specification: reserved prefixes (Brian McMahon)
- New version (2.3) of core CIF dictionary available (Brian McMahon)
- Electron density (rhoCIF) dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- New version of imgCIF/CBF dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- COMCIFS procedures for approving dictionaries (I. David Brown)
- Re: COMPCOMM: Summary of the Commissions requests for the (I. David Brown)
- COMCIFS annual report 2002 (I. David Brown)
- CIF specification document (Brian McMahon)
- IUCr Congress - Florence (I. David Brown)
- report on the open meeting at Geneva (I. David Brown)
- Request for approval of CIF version 1.1 specification (Brian McMahon)
- minutes of closed meeting (I. David Brown)
- Orientation matrix (Brian McMahon)
- More preparatory reading (Brian McMahon)
- Developments in STAR File information handling (Brian McMahon)
- msCIF dictionary DMG (I. David Brown)
- Triennial report to the General Assembly (I. David Brown)
- symCIF dictionary released (Brian McMahon)
- msCIF dictionary approved (Brian McMahon)
- CIF atoms (Owen Johnson)
- Approval requested for modulated structures dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- Annual report (I. David Brown)
- Approval requested for symmetry dictionary (Brian McMahon)
- Comcifs annual report (I. David Brown)
- Dictionary Maintenance Group for imgCIF/CBF (I. David Brown)
- CoreCIF dictionary version 2.2 released (Brian McMahon)
- imgCIF/CBF approved (Brian McMahon)
- Some New Perl mmCIF Software Tools (Philip Bourne)
- CHEMISTRY (was Re: Survey of available CIF software and (Peter Murray-Rust)
- CONFORMANCE [was Re: Survey of available CIF software and (Peter Murray-Rust)
- CIF line limits (I. David Brown)
- No Subject (I. David Brown)
- Revised statement of policy by IUCr on CIF and STAR (Brian McMahon)
- Statement of Policy on CIF/STAR (Brian McMahon)
- Membership of pdCIF dictionary management group (Brian McMahon)
- mmCIF dictionary version 2 approved (Brian McMahon)
- Backus-Naur Form for CIF (Brian McMahon)
- Sydney R Hall
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Brian McMahon
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Nick Spadaccini
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Brian H. Toby
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Nick Spadaccini
- Nick Spadaccini
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Brian McMahon
- I. David Brown
- Peter Murray-Rust
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Nick Spadaccini
- Gotzon Madariaga
- I. David Brown
- Herbert J. Bernstein
- Sydney R Hall
- I. David Brown
- Survey of available CIF software and request for wish list (Brian McMahon)
- OMG proposal for macromolecular structure (Brian McMahon)
- membership of Comcifs (I. David Brown)
- Revision of IUCr policy statement on STAR/CIF (Brian McMahon)
- cif-developers mailing list (Brian McMahon)
- Revised statement of policy on CIF and STAR Files (Brian McMahon)
- Some clarifications are needed (Sydney R Hall)
- Revised statement of policy on CIF (Brian McMahon)
- Annual Comcifs report (I. David Brown)
- Welcome to Owen Johnson (I. David Brown)
- Trade and Service Marks (Sydney R Hall)
- Minutes - Action item (8) COMCIFS restructuring (Brian McMahon)
- Minutes - Action item (6) ISO standards development process (Brian McMahon)
- Minutes - Action item (2.1) trademark registration (Brian McMahon)
- Minutes - Action item (1) merging dictionaries (Brian McMahon)
- Minutes of 1999 business meeting at Glasgow (Brian McMahon)
- Approval of COMCIFS DMGs (I. David Brown)
- Comcifs publicity committee (I. David Brown)
- Software Development Subcommittee (I. David Brown)
- DDL Development Subcommittee (I. David Brown)
- Membership in Comcifs (I. David Brown)
- mmCIF extension dictionary (John Westbrook)
- Dictionary Maintenance Working Group: Report (Brian McMahon)
- Final agenda for closed COMCIFS meeting (I. David Brown)
- Re: Review of policy on intellectual property right (Brian McMahon)
- Review of policy on intellectual property rights (Brian McMahon)
- Agenda for meetings in Glasgow (I. David Brown)
- voting membership (I. David Brown)
- Open Comcifs meeting (I. David Brown)
- Core CIF version 2.1 released (Brian McMahon)
- Approval requested for CIF Core 2.1 (Brian McMahon)
- Membership (I. David Brown)
- imgCIF / CBF (fwd) (I. David Brown)
- Agenda for Glasgow (I. David Brown)
- Report to IUCr Newsletter (I. David Brown)
- COMCIFS Meeting at IUCr Congress 1999 (Brian McMahon)
- Provisional approval for revisions of existing dictionaries (I. David Brown)