In collaboration with the IUCr Committee on the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS) and Committee on Data (CommDat), the Associazione Italiana Cristallografia held in autumn 2019 the first CIFiesta, an intensive course in Crystallographic Information, covering the extraction, dissemination and use of scientific knowledge from the structure determination experiment to database-driven discovery. Photographs of the event are in the IUCr photo gallery and course materials and schedule may be found on this page. An account of the school appears in the IUCr Newsletter, Vol. 27, No.4.
| Day 1: Thursday 29 August | |
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| 17.00-17.30 | AICS2019 Opening Ceremony |
| 17.30-18.00 | Opening Lecture: CODATA, FAIR and Open Science Simon Hodson |
| 18.00-18.40 | Opening Lecture: The science is in the data Loes Kroon-Batenburg |
| 18.40-18:50 | Video Message: Quality structural data in modern scientific culture John R. Helliwellpresentation  |video transcript |video link  |
| 18:50-19.30 | Opening Lecture: The devil is in the detail: sharing data Brian McMahonannotated presentation |
| Day 2: Friday 30 August | |
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| 09.00-09.30 | LAAAMP Colloquium: Introduction Michele Zemapresentation |
| 09.30-10.30 | LAAAMP Colloquium: Data collection: purpose, plan, design James Hesterpresentation |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| Session Chair: Luigi Vitagliano | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Lecture: Data evaluation and interpretation (I) Loes Kroon-Batenburgpresentation |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lecture: Data evaluation and interpretation (II) Loes Kroon-Batenburgpresentation |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch break |
| Session Chair: Serena C. Tarantino | |
| 14.00-16.10 | Lecture: Space-group symmetry - Understanding International Tables for Crystallography, Volume A Mois I. Aroyopresentation |
| 16.10-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-18.30 | Tutorial: Crystallography Online by the Bilbao Crystallographic Server Mois I. Aroyopresentation (part 1) | presentation (part 2) |
| 16.30-18.30 | Tutorial: Introduction to the ICSD Paolo Lotti |
| Day 3: Saturday 31 August | ||
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| Session Chair: Larry Falvello | ||
| 09.00-09.50 | Lecture: The CIF dictionaries: how they work James Hesterpresentation | |
| 09.50-10.40 | Lecture: The core CIF dictionary and the mmCIF dictionary Brian McMahonannotated presentation | |
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-13.00 | Tutorial (S): From raw data to CIF: retrieving missing information Horst Puschmann, Larry Falvello, Chiara Massera, Serena Tarantino, Michele Zema | Tutorial (M): From raw data to CIF Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Luigi Vitagliano, Rita Berisio, Luciana Esposito |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch break | |
| 14.00-16.10 | Tutorial (S): From raw data to CIF: refinement Horst Puschmann, Larry Falvello, Chiara Massera, Serena Tarantino, Michele Zema | Tutorial (M): From raw data to CIF Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Luigi Vitagliano, Rita Berisio, Luciana Esposito |
| 16.10-16.30 | Coffee break | |
| 16.30-18.30 | Tutorial (S): Understanding and responding to checkCIF reports Horst Puschmann, Larry Falvello, Chiara Massera, Serena Tarantino, Michele Zema | Tutorial (M): From raw data to CIF Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Luigi Vitagliano, Rita Berisio, Luciana Esposito |
| Day 4: Sunday 1 September | ||
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| Session Chair: Brian McMahon | Session Chair: John Berrisford | |
| 09.00-09.50 | Lecture (S): Validation: understanding checkCIF for small molecules Larry Falvellopresentation | Lecture (M): Protein structure validation and quality assessment Luigi Vitaglianopresentation |
| 09.50-10.40 | Lecture (S): Publication: preparing small-molecule structure reports for IUCr journals Chiara Masserapresentation | Lecture (M): Protein structure: instructions for use Luciana Espositopresentation |
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-13.00 | Tutorial (S): Publishing small-molecule structure reports Chiara Massera, Larry Falvello | Tutorial (M): Validation and publication of macromolecular structure reports Many tutors |
| Day 5: Monday 2 September | |||||
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| Session Chair: Horst Puschmann | Session Chair: Loes Kroon-Batenburg | ||||
| 09.00-09.50 | Lecture (S): Other extension dictionaries James Hesterpresentation | Lecture (M): PDBx and related dictionaries John Berrisfordpresentation | |||
| 09.50-10.40 | Lecture (S): Magnetic structures and magnetic extension dictionary Mois I. Aroyo | Lecture (M): Publishing biomacromolecule structures: requirements and opportunities (I) Rita Berisiopresentation | |||
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee break | ||||
| 11.00-12.00 | Lecture (S): Other tools for submitting and using structure reports Brian McMahonannotated presentation | Lecture (M): Publishing biomacromolecule structures: requirements and opportunities (II) Rita Berisio | |||
| Session Chair: Horst Puschmann | |||||
| 12.00-13.00 | Presentations by students and discussion about the results of the tutorials | ||||
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch break | ||||
| 14.00-16.10 | Three parallel tutorials | ||||
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| 16.10-16.30 | Coffee break | ||||
| 16.30-18.30 | Three parallel tutorials | ||||
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| Day 6: Tuesday 3 September | ||
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| 09.00-09.50 | Lecture: Database-driven discovery with the Cambridge Structural Database Suzanna Ward Chair: Chiara Masserapresentation | |
| 09.50-10.40 | Lecture: Database-driven discovery with the Protein Data Bank John Berrisford Chair: Rita Berisiopresentation | |
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-11.50 | Lecture: Database-driven discovery with the Powder Diffraction File Tom Blanton Chair: Paolo Lotti | |
| 11.50-12.40 | Lecture: Challenges still to be met (with round-table and general discussion) Horst Puschmann | |
| 12.40-13.00 | AICS2019 Presentation of Awards and Closing Ceremony | |