IUCr forums

Journals review committee
A committee formed at the 22nd IUCr General Assembly to provide an overview of journals activity.

IYCr steering committee
A steering committee to prepare for the International Year of Crystallography 2013.

Crystallographic Nomenclature
The Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature comprises an elected Chairperson and ex officio members. Nomenclature problems arising in specific fields of crystallography that come to the attention of, and are recognised as important by, the Commission are studied by ad hoc committees of experts appointed by the Commission.
Moderators: AndreAuthier, glazer

Biological Macromolecules
The Commission on Biological Macromolecules exists to advise the IUCr in organizing or sponsoring sessions on macromolecular crystallography at Congresses and conferences; to promote and coordinate scientific exchange between countries in the field of macromolecular crystallography; to cooperate with other Commissions of the Union on matters dealing with macromolecular crystallography; and to cooperate with other international bodies interested in macromolecular crystallography and allied subjects.

Journal Editors and Section Editors
Forum for interaction between the Editor-in-Chief and individual journal or section editors

Acta A Co-editors
Editorial Board of Acta Crystallographica Section A.

Validation and publication
This is journals working group on topics related to the validation and publication of inorganic and small-molecule data in the journals. The mandate of the group is to discuss what we feel needs to be done with regard to these topics and come up with proposals for eventual implementation.

Volume H: Powder Diffraction
This forum has been set up to allow discussions of the new volume of International Tables on Powder Diffraction. It is intended to allow discussion of all aspects of the volume.
Subforum: Volume H planning

Volume B: Reciprocal Space

Diffraction data deposition
Policy on deposition of raw data from scattering experiments

Consultation on diffraction data deposition
This forum allows IUCr Commissions, subject experts and invited consultants to provide input to the IUCr Working Group on Diffraction Data Deposition.

Public input on diffraction data deposition
This is a public forum that invites community input on strategies and desirable practices in providing open and long-term access to diffraction data sets.
Moderator: Brian McMahon

Description of Nanomaterials
CODATA (www.codata.org) and VAMAS (www.vamas.org) have formed an interdisciplinary Working Group on the Description of Nanomaterials, in order to standardise a description system for materials on the nanoscale. This forum will collect input to that process from IUCr Commissions.

Committee on Data
Forum for discussion between Members and Consultants of the IUCr Standing Committee on data (CommDat).

Public input to CommDat
This is a public forum that invites community input on data strategies and desirable practices. It is maintained by the IUCr Committee on Data, https://www.iucr.org/iucr/governance/ad ... ee-on-data

CIF Application Programming Interface
Forum for CIF developers to define an application programming interface for CIF software.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

CIF dictionary namespace conventions
Discussion of namespace conventions for community-developed CIF dictionaries.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

NeXus HDF5 CIF convergence
The NeXus, HDF5 and CIF scientific data formats overlap in some areas (e.g. in the capture and management of X-ray diffraction images), and there is considerable benefit to be gained by harmonising their content and working towards maximum interoperability. This forum invites discussion on this topic.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

Core CIF review and update
Discussion of core CIF dictionary definitions. Please choose topic headings so that the first words refer to a particular dataname or category, whether existing or proposed.
Moderators: Brian McMahon, jcbollinger

CIF2.0
Public discussion forum for the CIF2.0 standard.
Moderator: Brian McMahon

Online dictionary tests
Sample posts when developing the Online dictionary bulletin board
Moderators: Brian McMahon, gchapuis, AndreAuthier

Testing
Scratch forum

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