This is an archive of the official website for the IUCrXVIII Congress at Glasgow in 1999. Some images and text may be missing and some links no longer work.

The growing use of crystallographic databases and improvements in electronic communication are resulting in dramatic changes in the way we report and analyse crystal and molecular structures. This session will review the current state of the CIF project and will present the members views on where the project should be going.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

13.00-13.10hrs	I.D.Brown	The CIF project and the role of COMCIFS
13.10-13.30hrs		Dictionaries - Recent changes and current developments
	I.D.Brown	Core and dictionaries in preparation
	H.M. Berman	mmCIF
	H.J. Bernstein	imgCIF/CBF
13.30-13.45hrs	B. McMahon	The problem of Intellectual Property Rights
13.45-14.15hrs	Bernstein, Bourne, Edgington, Westbrook	What Software is Available and what Should be Available?

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

14.15-14.30hrs	B. McMahon	Use of CIF in Scientific Publication
14.30-14.45hrs	E.M. Westbrook	CIF and the Web
14.45-15.10hrs	Hall, Westbrook	Where are the Dictionary Definition Languages Going?
15.10-15.30hrs		Break
15.30-17.00hrs	Panel Discussion with the Speakers	Whither CIF?

Adrian Lapthorn