Public Profile - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)

CSD Structures in Elsevier's COVID-19 collection

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:29:00 GMT

Elsevier have made available a collection of around 20,000 articles relating to COVID-19. These are available to download for free for text and data mining.

A question one might ask is; which of these articles have an associated CSD structure?

Trust in Data, Trust in CCDC

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:37:00 GMT

Earlier this year, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) was delighted to receive the news that we had been approved for CoreTrustSeal certification. This certification accredits the CCDC with providing trusted stewardship and access to data as judged against criteria established and endorsed by the wider research data community. It reinforces and reflects the faith that our depositors and partner organisations have shown in CCDC over the years to provide a trusted home for their data.

An ACS Symposium - One Million Crystal Structures: A Wealth of Structural Chemistry Knowledge

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:20:00 GMT

In recognition of the rapidly approaching milestone of one million crystal structures shared through the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), we are involved in the organization of a symposium at the Fall 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego (@AmerChemSociety) that aims to highlight the insights that can be derived from a collection of data such as the CSD. With the abstract deadline for the symposium fast approaching (18^th March) we thought it was the ideal time to tell you a bit more about the CSD and the symposium and encourage you to consider contributing to this session and helping us to mark #CSD1Million.

Datasets, Data Citation and DOIs

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:48:00 GMT

As announced in our DOI press release we are delighted to be now assigning Digital Object Identifier (DOIs) to datasets of crystal structures deposited with CCDC. You may be familiar with the use of DOIs alongside article citations. These provide a persistent link that is guaranteed to take you to a page that provides metadata associated with an article and invariably a link to the article itself. Assigning an identifier such as a DOI reflects a desire for published content to be easily discoverable for the long term. CCDC believes that just as articles are worthy of citation, so too are the datasets that represent the primary output of the crystallographic community. We are not alone in this view as is evidenced by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (http://www.force11.org/datacitation) to which CCDC fully subscribes. These principles recognise the importance of data as a citable product of research for which credit and attribution is due. They also highlight attributes such as unique identification, access, persistence, versioning and interoperability which assigning DOIs can help facilitate.

Ian Bruno CCDC

CSD Structures in Elsevier's COVID-19 collection

Trust in Data, Trust in CCDC

An ACS Symposium - One Million Crystal Structures: A Wealth of Structural Chemistry Knowledge

Datasets, Data Citation and DOIs