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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear James and Colleages,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">John C. Bollinger, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Computing and X-Ray Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> comcifs [mailto:comcifs-bounces@iucr.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James Hester<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 23, 2017 8:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion list of the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS) <comcifs@iucr.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> CIF-JSON draft standard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The cif-developers mailing list has developed a standard for expressing CIF information in JSON form. The resulting draft is available at
<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomcifs.github.io%2Fcif-json&data=01%7C01%7CJohn.Bollinger%40stjude.org%7Cfc5e0c10293746b2d08a08d4a2433350%7C22340fa892264871b677d3b3e377af72%7C0&sdata=SjHKghqSXFIZZIkc0%2FkBC26xdE1HZclKjIk7XfVxO%2Bc%3D&reserved=0">
https://comcifs.github.io/cif-json</a> .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The discussions around the development of this standard are available in the cif-developers archive:
<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iucr.org%2Fiucr-top%2Flists%2Fcif-developers%2F&data=01%7C01%7CJohn.Bollinger%40stjude.org%7Cfc5e0c10293746b2d08a08d4a2433350%7C22340fa892264871b677d3b3e377af72%7C0&sdata=vcW4wMyjdzsxT0UL%2FXdbFrWeo0fNXN51jMaBb8Z16kM%3D&reserved=0">
http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/lists/cif-developers/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If no substantial issues are raised here in the next 6 weeks, this standard will be considered to have been approved by COMCIFS. Any substantial change to the standard will be routed through the cif-developers list (which anybody may join)
before being returned here for final approval. I propose that the approval period is reduced to 3 weeks for any subsequent drafts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">James Hester (chair)<o:p></o:p></p>
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