Draft 2019 report for IUCr exec

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

Dear James,
  The agreement on the gold standard impacts both the NeXus NXmx
application definition and
the imgCIF dictionary.  I will work on an appropriate blurb for the report
and send it to you by tomorrow.
  Regards,
    Herbert

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:49 PM James Hester <jamesrhester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear COMCIFS,
>
> Please see below a draft report for last year.  Please let me know if I
> have missed anything that you think worthy of mention. In particular, if
> the wwPDB has some CIF-related news that would be excellent. And Herbert,
> did the NIAC do anything relevant to CIF last year that we should make a
> note of?
>
> thanks,
> James.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> COMCIFS report 2019
> ===================
>
> COMCIFS is responsible for maintaining and developing the suite of
> standards known as the Crystallographic Information Framework (CIF) on
> behalf of the IUCr. The committee consists of five voting members and
> a broad collection of advisers and observers. The current voting
> members are James Hester (Chair), John Bollinger (Co-Secretary),
> Brian McMahon (Co-Secretary), Herbert Bernstein, and John Westbrook.
>
> New dictionaries
>
> No new dictionaries were approved this year.
>
> Legacy dictionaries
>
> No further legacy dictionaries were transferred to DDLm this year.
> The method for doing this has been finalised for the modulated
> structure and electron density dictionaries.
>
> International Tables Volume G
>
> COMCIFS members are closely involved with the preparation of the
> second edition of International Tables Volume G ("Production and
> exchange of crystallographic data"). Progress has been slow due to
> clarification of the new foundational standards being a prerequisite
> to producing on the Volume. Further information is available in the
> report of the Commission for International Tables.
>
> Macromolecular standards
>
> The wwPDB is responsible for a large and rapidly expanding collection
> of CIF definitions that encompass concepts and techniques used in the
> macromolecular community.  In 2019 submission of entries in mmCIF
> format became mandatory as one of the final steps in moving away from
> the 1970s era PDB format.
>
> Interactions with other groups
>
> Herbert Bernstein represents COMCIFS on the NeXus international
> advisory committee (NIAC).  In 2019...
>
> COMCIFS is also closely involved with the IUCr Committee on Data
> (CommDat).
>
> Events
>
> This year's AIC International Crystallography School in Naples ("CIFiesta")
> had a strong focus on Crystallographic Information, and included several
> hours of lectures on the CIF system and dictionaries from CIF experts.
>
> Looking forward
>
> As flagged in previous years, an ever-shrinking group of people is
> drawn upon to support CIF maintenance and development. This situation
> is not sustainable, particularly as the first generation of CIF
> experts move into retirement. This situation did not improve in 2019.
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