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Final agenda for closed COMCIFS meeting
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- From: "I. David Brown" <idbrown@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:17:37 +0100 (BST)
Dear Colleagues, I enclose below the final agenda for our closed meeting. I will point out that we have two hours scheduled and an agenda containing 7 items. That works out to about 15 minutes for each item. We clearly will not solve all our problems in that time. We may be able to run over the 2 hours, but I don't know if our room will be needed by others, so we should aim to cover as much as we can in the allotted time. I intend to keep a firm hand on the agenda so that we at least touch on all the items. We may have to try for an adjournment if there are still outstanding issues we need to discuss. I am enclosing the agenda now so that you can come prepared and we spend as little time in giving background. Most of the topics are open ended but I hope we will be able to come to sufficient of a consensus that further discussion can occur in the corridors and by email. ******************* COMCIFS CLOSED MEETING 9 August 1999 1300-1500 Held in Etive 1. Merging dictionaries McMahon, Bernstein As new dictionaries come on line this function is becoming more urgent. 2. Intellectual property rights McMahon i. Comments on Herb and Brian's draft statement ii. What is COMCIFS role with respect to DDL? iii. Should CIF be registered with ISO? This could strengthen our claim to the standard. 3. CIF Browser-Editor There is a growing need for such an application to avoid discouraging users. Should we seek external funding? What should be in the specifications for such a browser? 4. Encoding and Dissemination Berman 5. Coordinating CIF developments with non-crystallographic data projects Berman Several non-crystallographic databases are now being developed using DDL2 to ensure that they are compatible with mmCIFs. How can we ensure compatibility between CIF and such Star files? How far can COMCIFS go in policing conformity? 6. Relationship to other file structures (XML, ASM.1) Similar file structures are now being widely adopted. What should our relationship be with these other standards? Do we need to build some compatibility into CIF? 7. The Future of DDL How many versions do we need to maintain? Should we move towards a single DDL? Can we define a DDL3 that is compatible with DDL1 and DDL2? What additional functionality is needed? 1. Type constructs 2. Multidimensional arrays 3. Nested loops 4. Save frames 5. Methods David Chair of COMCIFS ***************************************************** Dr.I.David Brown, Professor Emeritus Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Tel: 1-(905)-525-9140 ext 24710 Fax: 1-(905)-521-2773 idbrown@mcmaster.ca *****************************************************
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