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CommDat will hold a Workshop on "Raw diffraction data reuse: the good, the bad and the challenging" at the IUCr Congress on Tuesday 22 August 2023. Full details are on the IUCr website at https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/commdat/melbourne-workshop There is limited capacity for remote participatio...

Following a conversation with John Helliwell and Wladek Minor, it was suggested that the following historical sketch might be of some interest: The IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Data was one of the original commissions in 1948, demonstrating the early recognition by the IUCr of the importance ...

Annual report (2021) from the Committee on Data of the IUCr (CommDat) to the IUCr Executive Committee For 2021 there are the following matters to report: (i) The IUCr Forum for Public Input to CommDat has had various new published reports and announcements posted there. These have been extensively ...

We are pleased to announce that the IUCr Executive Committee has approved the following new members of the IUCr Committee on Data:- Dr Alice Brink, of the Chemistry Department, the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Researcher in chemical and protein crystallography for target...

IUCr Committee on Data Meeting Online 25 August 2021 12:00 UTC (09:00 EST, 13:00 BST, 14:00 CET, 22:00 AEST) Present: John R. Helliwell (Chair), Herbert Bernstein, Ian Bruno, Simon Coles, Kamil Dziubek, Andy Goetz, James Hester, Soorya Kabekkodu, Brian McMahon, Wladek Minor, Marian Szebenyi, John W...

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Testing new post 4 August 2021

The teaching materials from the CIF dictionary writing workshop in Hyderabad are now on the IUCr web site at https://www.iucr.org/resources/cif/comcifs/workshop-2017 Many of the teaching materials from the CIFiesta School in Naples are at https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/commdat/cifiesta-2019 or ...

I've just returned from a very enjoyable two days at the 1st PaNOSC Annual Meeting in Trieste (https://indico.esrf.fr/indico/event/36/overview). PaNOSC is one of the "cluster projects" intended to provide a gathering point for various ESFRI projects and landmarks to connect to the European Open Scie...

The CommDat Satellite workshop at the recent ECM32 meeting was on the topic "Data Science Skills in Publishing: for authors, editors and referees". The web page for the workshop, https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/commdat/vienna-workshop, has been updated with a full set of presentations and links ...