COMCIFS 2023 draft report for your consideration

[James H]

Thanks Brian, I'll edit those suggestions into the final report.

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 18:35, Brian McMahon via comcifs <comcifs at iucr.org>
wrote:

> Hi James
>
> Looks very good.
>
> [1]
>  > preview volume ... drafts of almost all chapters
>
> Perhaps "of most chapters"? I personally wouldn't describe around
> three-quarters as "almost all".
>
> [2] Is it worth mentioning that DOIs are being assigned to newly
> published dictionaries, or is that still considered work in progress?
>
> [3] Ongoing involvement by COMCIFS with "checkCIF for raw data" and
> Raw Data Letters should be mentioned.
>
> Regards
> Brian
>
>
> On 05/04/2024 03:01, James H via comcifs 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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