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Dear Colleagues, Ten years after the Photon and Neutron data policy framework (PaNdata), the Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC) project, one of the European Open Science Cloud European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (EOSC ESFRI) cluster projects, has released a new photon and...

Dear Colleagues, There are two CommDat Workshops at IUCr Congress Prague to be held on Day Zero, ie August 22nd 2020. Their websites are:- https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/commdat/prague-workshop-cx Organisers: Simon Coles and Amy Sarjeant and https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/commdat/prague-wo...

Dear Colleagues, My education and training motivated article “Data science skills for referees: biological X-ray crystallography“ is now available as a Green Open Access, ie as accepted, article from the University of Manchester Library Archive here:- https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/fil...

Dear Colleagues,
My journal of Structural Dynamics article arising from my lecture at the ACA Transactions Symposium 2019 in Covington on the theme of Crystallographic Data Best Practice is now published.
It is Open Access:-
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5124439
Best wishes,
John

Dear Colleagues, Here is a short (10 minutes) talk I presented at the IUCr 2020 Workshop in Prague in May 2019 summarising the work of the IUCr on “Quality structural Data in Modern Scientific Culture”:- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6X260grnhUk It was also presented as a video recording at the Crys...

Dear Colleagues, I commend this important report from the USA National Academy of Sciences on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science, recently published. The whole Report is truly excellent but to assist as “quick a read” as possible I mention that Appendix C gathers the Recommendations togeth...

Dear Colleagues, I have placed my ACA 2019 lectiure in the Transactions Symposium entitled:- "Data best practices: Current state and future needs" at Zenodo:- Helliwell. (2019, July). FACT and FAIR with big data allows objectivity in science: the view of crystallography. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.52...

Dear Colleagues, Reports describing the work of the IUCr Committee on Data and various IUCr Commissions are described in a collection of articles arising from a Workshop held the day before the IUCr2020 Programme Committee Meeting in Prague in May 2019:- http://www.xray.cz/ms/bul2019-2.htm Best wish...

Dear Colleagues, The abstracts for the IUCr Satellite on Data Science Skills in publishing for authors, editors and referees are now all available here:- https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/commdat/vienna-workshop/_nocache Best wishes, John Emeritus Professor of Chemistry John R Helliwell DSc_Physic...

Dear Colleagues,
The UK Open Research Data Task Force Final Report, Case studies and UK Government Minister’s response is here:-
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... nal-report
Best wishes,
John