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I have just upgraded the Matrix installation from version 4.8.0 to 4.12.2, which has allowed the "Easy Edit interface" also to be upgraded...

Report on CODATA Taipei 2012
A. Conference
The overall headline of the Conference was "Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet",...

NeXus ( ), HDF5 ( ) and CIF ( ) are all important frameworks and formats in experimental data collection. There is value in exploring the possibility...

Report on the Workshop on Data Diffraction Deposition (DDD) at ECM27 and the preceding DDD Meeting held at the ACA in Boston

John R Helliwell,...

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...

One issue that came up informally during the DDD meeting at Bergen
concerns the ever‐vexed issue of image file formats, and whether the
imgCIF/CBF...

Richard Garrett, Chair of the IUCr Commission on Synchrotron Radiation, has drawn our attention to an important new report just released by The Royal...

The following comments might be useful for Webmasters with little prior experience of working in HTML. They're based on correspondence around a...

Here are a few questions that come up often when new Commission webmasters begin to build their sites.

(1) I changed the "Members" page...

I wish to know the procedure to solve the disorder in a nitrate ion present in the crystal lattice...

For another instance of likely scientific fraud in macromolecular crystallography, i.e. under formal investigation at the relevant university, see:...

John Helliwell and I attended the ICSTI Winter Workshop in Paris on 5 March, entitled "Delivering Data in Science". It provided a useful...

COMCIFS is willing to provide a central registration service for community-developed dictionaries. To reduce problems arising from independent...

(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...

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...

The IUCr XAFS commission invites you to contribute to this forum

Dear Colleagues,
I commend to you the report:-

This overview report very nicely sets the wider context for our own deliberations on seeing where...

The Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (DDDWG) has been established as an initiative of Sine Larsen, Immediate Past President of the IUCr, to...

When using a content management system, it's better to refer to other pages within the same system using their database identifiers rather than...

Notice that there are two sets of Commission web pages. The first, "official", set is maintained by the IUCr Executive Secretary and is...

Please sign up to the IUCr forums according to the following instructions:

(1) Go to the URL
(2) In the middle of the page, there is a login form....

The icons that appear in topic and forum listings have the following meanings.

Two general points
- Red icons are unread items, grey are read
- A...

snapshot1.png There are a number of standard ways of adding content to a website built using the Squiz Matrix content management system (CMS) - see...

snapshot1.png The Content Management System (CMS) used on the IUCr web site implements a queuing system for processes that might require significant...

IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (IUCr DDD WG)

Notes and actions from meeting held 27th August 2011 Madrid

Present:
WG Members...