DDLm cif_core for your approval

James Hester jamesrhester at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 06:32:03 BST 2016


Dear COMCIFS,

There having been no objections or indeed any comment whatsoever over the
past 3 weeks, the DDLm core_cif is now approved.

James.

On 19 September 2016 at 17:10, James Hester <jamesrhester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear COMCIFS,
>
> At the Montreal IUCr meeting we agreed that all DDL1 dictionaries would be
> rewritten using DDLm. The first of these dictionaries to reach COMCIFS is
> the DDLm form of the core CIF dictionary.  As it is too large to attach to
> this email, please instead refer to the following links:
>
> Canonical form: https://github.com/COMCIFS/cif_core/blob/cif2-conversion/
> cif_core.dic
> Simplified HTML form suitable for browsing: http://comcifs.github.io/cif_
> core.dic.html
>
> This dictionary has been reviewed by the core DMG.
>
> While almost all the datanames in this dictionary have direct equivalents
> in the DDL1 dictionary, I draw your attention to the new _audit.schema
> dataname (http://comcifs.github.io/cif_core.dic.html#_audit_schema). The
> rationale behind this dataname and the accompanying mechanism for (finally)
> being able to loop arbitrary datanames is discussed in the proposal found
> at
> https://github.com/COMCIFS/comcifs.github.io/blob/master/
> looping_proposal.md
>
> and recent discussion threads on the DDLm group mailing list leading up to
> the proposal may contain useful background information as well, starting
> from http://www.iucr.org/__data/iucr/lists/ddlm-group/msg01428.html
>
> As per my recent email, three weeks are allocated for review of this
> dictionary, following which we should consider the new magnetic CIF
> dictionary.
>
> James.
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