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- Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: Public input on diffraction data deposition
- Topic: DDDWG Workshop in Bergen
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DDDWG Workshop in Bergen
The one-day Workshop held as a satellite of ECM 27 in Bergen was very stimulating and provided an excellent overview of a variety of relevant activities. A full timetable and set of presentations is posted on the IUCr web site at m. Direct links to the individual abstracts and presentations are also...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:24 am
- Forum: Public input on diffraction data deposition
- Topic: Royal Society report on Science as an Open Enterprise
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Royal Society report on Science as an Open Enterprise
Richard Garrett, Chair of the IUCr Commission on Synchrotron Radiation, has drawn our attention to an important new report just released by The Royal Society: Science as an open enterprise (m), that discusses open access to data for science. The report has some key themes - mandating open access to ...
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:44 am
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- Topic: Tutorial on editing content using only "structural markup"
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Tutorial on editing content using only "structural markup"
The following comments might be useful for Webmasters with little prior experience of working in HTML. They're based on correspondence around a Commission page listing related meetings. [1] Structural markup The general principle is that you use the editing bar to define the structure of the documen...
- Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:19 am
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- Topic: Frequently Asked Questions by new webmasters
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Frequently Asked Questions by new webmasters
Here are a few questions that come up often when new Commission webmasters begin to build their sites. (1) I changed the "Members" page to "Contacts". Strangely, I see the name change in the menu on some pages and not on others. Editing pages can be frustrating because there are ...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:47 am
- Forum: Public input on diffraction data deposition
- Topic: Report of ICSTI Winter Workshop: Delivering Data in Science
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- Views: 6588
Report of ICSTI Winter Workshop: Delivering Data in Science
John Helliwell and I attended the ICSTI Winter Workshop in Paris on 5 March, entitled "Delivering Data in Science". It provided a useful overview of data management activities and policies worldwide, and an account of some different approaches within various scientific disciplines. Our wri...
- Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:14 pm
- Forum: CIF dictionary namespace conventions
- Topic: Purpose of this forum
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- Views: 27946
Purpose of this forum
COMCIFS is willing to provide a central registration service for community-developed dictionaries. To reduce problems arising from independent creation of identical data names in different dictionaries, it is proposed that some namespace convention be introduced. this forum discusses that issue. Brian
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:31 am
- Forum: Public input on diffraction data deposition
- Topic: Discussion of small-angle scattering data deposition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8714
Re: Discussion of small-angle scattering data deposition
Thanks, Andrew: that's a very helpful survey of the issues faced within that community, and I guess it's a model for many other fields where there are emerging or varied experimental techniques. One thing that seems clear to me is that 'metadata' is a many-layered concept. One needs metadata that de...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:39 am
- Forum: Public input on diffraction data deposition
- Topic: Archiving raw data: Summary of 2011 CCP4bb discussion
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Archiving raw data: Summary of 2011 CCP4bb discussion
(Posted on behalf of Tom Terwilliger for technical reasons.) This is a summary of some of the unique points made in a discussion on archiving images for PDB depositions Oct-Dec, 2012 on the CCP4 bulletin board . The IUCr has commissioned The Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (DDDWG) to cons...
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:53 am
- Forum: Public input on diffraction data deposition
- Topic: Symposium on Semantic Physical Science
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Symposium on Semantic Physical Science
It's not core to the remit of this group, but some of you may nevertheless be interested in the Symposium advertised below, organised by the Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, especially if you're in the Cambridge area at the time. Certainly the IUCr publishing operations see ready a...
- Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:20 pm
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- Topic: Planned upgrade to Matrix 4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7
Re: Planned upgrade to Matrix 4
The upgrades to Squiz Matrix 4.6.1 and Easy Edit Suite Phase 3 have now been completed. Please let me know if you find any anomalies when modifying your web pages.
Thank you for your patience.
Brian
Thank you for your patience.
Brian