IUCr forums

Dear Colleagues. A US-UK Scientific Forum on Researcher Access to Data was held in Washington, DC, in September 2023. Quoting from its abstract: "The forum examined the constellation of issues surrounding researchers' access to data, best practices and lessons learned from exemplary research discipl...

Dear Colleagues, My presentation slides at the British Crystallographic Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, UK March 2024 on this topic I have placed at Zenodo:- https://zenodo.org/records/10864090 This is a ppt file so please do feel able to reuse any that you wish. I have also prov...

Dear Colleagues, I think the recent activities at the EuXFEL with respect to their newly revised Data policy are of considerable, wide, interest including to crystallographers. I write here within the perspective of a general interest in facility policies’ data strategy. The relevant EuXFEL document...

Dear Colleagues, The first article from our CommDat’s activities at IUCr 2023 Melbourne, “The interoperability of crystallographic data and databases” is now online in IUCrJ. Please see:- https://journals.iucr.org/m/issues/2024/01/00/lt5064/index.html Best wishes, John Emeritus Professor John R Hell...

Dear Colleagues, I imagine that my topical review " Error estimates in atom coordinates and B factors in macromolecular crystallography " will be of interest. The weblink is:- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665928X2300017X My article is open access. Best wishes, John John R Hell...

Dear Colleagues,
My presentation (15 minutes) in Session 3.1.6 Validating Models from the Data, Other Data, and Theory at the ACA 2023 in Baltimore, USA is available from Zenodo here:-
https://zenodo.org/record/8164848
Best wishes.
John R Helliwell
Chairman of the IUCr Committee on Data

Dear Colleagues, The recordings for the PaNOSC (the Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud) and ExPaNDS (the European Open Science Cloud Photon and Neutron Data Services) EU projects’ closing events are now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65OAs291u7k and https://expands.eu/2023/02/14/web...

Dear Colleagues, The talk entitled “Applying the FAIR Principles to Crystallography Data Publication – a use case for DAPHNE4NFDI?“ that I presented at the NFDI Physical Sciences Joint Colloquium organized by DAPHNE4NFDI in early December 2022 at DESY, Hamburg was recorded and the weblink is here:- ...

Dear Colleagues, Re my recent lecture to the Spanish Crystallographic Association “GE3C”, both the slides (as a pdf) and the recording itself, have been made available. The weblinks are:-. https://ge3c.rseq.org/texto-completo-de-la-conferencia-impartida-por-el-profesor-helliwell-dentro-del-ciclo-de-...

Dear Colleagues, Yesterday I presented a talk in a Plenary session of the SLAC 2022 Users' Meeting. I have uploaded my talk slides, along with the abstract and keywords, at Zenodo, which can be found here:- https://zenodo.org/record/7118593#.YzQPm3bMK00 Best wishes, John John R Helliwell Chairman of...