Applying for a COMCIFS workshop at IUCr 2023

[Brian McMahon]

Looks good to me. You don't specifically mention writing methods
with dREL - worth an itemised topic?

Brian

On 15/07/2022 03:33, James H via comcifs wrote:
> Dear COMCIFS,
> 
> The deadline for expressions of interest for IUCr2023 workshops is next 
> Thursday.  One idea for a COMCIFS-backed workshop is a one day 
> Dictionary Writing Workshop along the lines of the one held at Hyderabad 
> back in 2015. My preference would be to focus on DDLm dictionaries, as 
> the wwPDB seems to have a reasonable program of DDL2 dictionary 
> definition development via topic-focused workshops. As a rough outline 
> the following topics might be covered in the workshop:
> 
> 1. Overview of CIF dictionaries (structure, available dictionaries, role 
> in the crystallographic world, DDL1/DDL2/DDLm)
> 2. Writing and contributing a new data name definition for an existing 
> dictionary (including introduction to DDLm attributes)
> 3. Designing and writing a new topic dictionary (from scratch to a 
> complete dictionary)
> 4. Using Github for rapid, collaborative dictionary development
> 5. (?) Writing dictionary-aware CIF software
> 
> Assuming there are no strong objections to this, I will put in the 
> expression of interest next week.
> 
> thanks,
> James.
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