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Promoting Data Sharing

Eric Rogers – Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:18:00 GMT

You may not realise it, but this is an exciting time for crystallographic data sharing and publishing! Inspired by the changes of recent years in research and scholarly communications, the scientific community is currently transforming how research data is stored, shared and published, with the objective of making all data more openly accessible. This is most definitely the case for crystallographic data, which here at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), we work to make freely accessible to the scientific community via our Access Structures service. In this blog, I will outline the new frameworks and initiatives shaping the future landscape of open scientific research data, which will no doubt influence how crystallographic data will be managed in the future.

A new data deposition process is good news for crystallographers

Suzanna Ward – Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:07:00 GMT

As announced in our latest News Item, we are delighted by the launch of our next generation of CCDC Deposition services. Some of our depositors may have used our web-service before but this new service will make it even easier for chemists to deposit their data at the CCDC.

Details of the enhancements offered by the new process are described in the News Item and are accessed from our website home page. I urge you to take a look. The new process has been thoroughly tested by a panel of some of our regular depositors, and we have benefitted greatly from their feedback and observations. I hope you’ll agree that the new process is a great step forward.

Who wants to be a millionaire? The CCDC issues number CCDC 900000.

Seth Wiggin – Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMT

In the last week or so we passed another milestone at the CCDC in the building of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), by issuing the reference number CCDC 900000. This type of reference number is probably familiar to many people from scientific papers describing X-ray data, and corresponds to a set of X-ray experimental data. This number is issued when data is first sent to us, and stays with the dataset even if undergoes revisions before or during the publishing process. It’s also worth mentioning that structures in the database are not normally referred to by the CCDC number at all, but rather using the six letter CCDC refcode. We’ll talk about refcodes in more detail in an upcoming blog!

To Infinity and Beyond? The CSD reaches over 600,000 structures

Seth Wiggin – Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:15:00 GMT

When I first joined the CCDC almost five years ago the CSD had just passed the 420,000 mark. The half millionth structural determination was included in late November 2009, and the 600,000 milestone was reached just last month: a little over two years later. The growth of the CSD since 1972 is recorded on the website, and shows a continual and ever-increasing rate of growth. This rate of increase has actually been used by researchers to show the development of specific areas of study, I recently attended a talk where it was shown the number of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) deposited in the CSD was doubling at approximately twice the rate of the CSD as a whole.

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Promoting Data Sharing

A new data deposition process is good news for crystallographers

Who wants to be a millionaire? The CCDC issues number CCDC 900000.

To Infinity and Beyond? The CSD reaches over 600,000 structures

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