COMCIFS 2023 draft report for your consideration

[James H]

Thanks Herbert, I'll incorporate those changes.

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 13:40, Herbert J. Bernstein <yayahjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear James,
>   Please include my middle initial, J, so I am identified as Herbert J.
> Bernstein.  Even with the middle initial,
> my name is very common.
>   May I also suggest changing "In 2023 Stephen Burley was nominated as a
> voting member to
> replace John Westbrook." to "In 2023 Stephen Burley was nominated as a
> voting member to
> replace  the late, and sorely missed, John Westbrook who was a key
> contributer to many
> CIF features."
>   Regards,
>     Herbert
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 10:01 PM James H via comcifs <comcifs at iucr.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear COMCIFS,
>>
>> Please see a draft report for COMCIFS for 2023 below. As this was due at
>> the end of last month, I'd like to send it off to Chester on Monday. With
>> apologies for that short turnaround time, if there is any important
>> CIF-related news that I've missed please advise by Monday morning and I
>> will edit it in - I'm 100 words below the new 500 word allowance.
>>
>> thanks,
>> James.
>>
>> COMCIFS Report 2023
>> ===================
>>
>> COMCIFS is responsible for development and maintenance of the
>> CIF standard.
>>
>> Membership
>>
>> COMCIFS consists of a relatively large number of ordinary members, and
>> a few members who cast votes in the case that consensus is not
>> reached.  In 2023 Stephen Burley was nominated as a voting member to
>> replace John Westbrook. Other voting members are James Hester
>> (Chair), John Bollinger (Co-secretary), Brian McMahon (Co-secretary), and
>> Herbert
>> Bernstein.
>>
>> International Tables Volume G
>>
>> With some key dictionaries in flux and the fundamental chapters
>> essentially complete, the focus of work on Volume G shifted to the
>> latter chapters covering applications of CIF. A preview volume
>> containing the current drafts of almost all chapters was exhibited at
>> the IUCr meeting in Melbourne.
>>
>> Dictionary development
>>
>> After more than a decade, a new version of the core dictionary has
>> been formally released. This is the first time the latest version on
>> the IUCr website has been presented using the DDLm dictionary
>> definition language and is the culmination of many years of work.
>>
>> Following this, a new dictionary for use with data spread over
>> multiple data blocks has been published. This is part of ongoing work
>> to allow CIF to handle more complex data sets containing related data
>> originating from multiple sources in a rigorous way.
>>
>> In other news, both Quantum Crystallography and High Pressure
>> commissions indicated interest at the IUCr meeting in developing
>> discipline-specific dictionaries; the magnetic CIF dictionary saw
>> significant additions from the Commission on Magnetic Structures; a
>> working group was formed after the IUCr meeting to develop a crystal
>> structure prediction dictionary; the imgCIF dictionary was placed on a
>> firmer footing going forward after agreement to separate it out from
>> the CBFLib distribution; and the powder dictionary expanded rapidly
>> after many years of stasis.
>>
>> IUCr 2023
>>
>> COMCIFS ran a Dictionary Development Workshop prior to the IUCr
>> meeting in an attempt to broaden the pool of contributors. Around a
>> dozen attendees were introduced to the concepts behind CIF
>> dictionaries and participated in live development of a toy dictionary
>> using online tools.
>>
>> COMCIFS and CommDat were joint sponsors of a number of stimulating
>> Microsymposia, and CIF was noted in a positive light by a number of
>> speakers in other sessions.
>>
>> Looking forward
>>
>> In the run-up to publication of Volume G all dictionaries will see
>> formal releases. Work is ongoing to finalise the non-core
>> dictionaries, with particular focus on powder CIF.
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