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WDC user's guide

Introduction
Name
Title
Institution
Mailing Address
Phone and fax
WWW or Telex
Email Address
Highest Degree
Year of Birth
Current Position
Research Interests
Other Interests
IUCr responsibilities
Permission to distribute

Introduction

This document describes the different information to be given for any entry in the World Directory of Crystallographers and other persons working with Crystallographic Methods.

This directory is open to all the Community and the data are available on the IUCr Web server .

One may either:

create a personal CIF form using any editor on any machine and ship this file to a National Editor
or fill a Web form.

If non ASCII characters are needed one may either use CIF codes as described in Acta Cryst.,1996,B52,271 or for the most obviois ones indicate them in an obvious manner. For instance /'e (CIF) or (e accute) ar both acceptable.

Name

Family name may include non ASCII characters. See above. Ex: Smith

Title

Title must be preferably one of the following abbreviations:

Mr, Mrs or Miss for undergraduate
Dr for PhD or equivalent diploma.
Prf for Professor

Remember that other titles may be not understandable for scientists working in other countries.

Institution

Full institution address. This field should be usable for any person who needs to come to the institution, thus may be different from a postal address.

Mailing Address

Address as used by postal services. This field is only needed if different from the above.

For instance my postal addresse is case 115, 75252 Paris Cedex05, France. It is sufficient for mail but will never allow you to visit me in my laboratory!

Phone and fax numbers

A full telephone or fax number is made of:

a country code which will be automatically added if you use the Web form for your country.

an area code to be included in parenthesis

a local number

optionnaly an extension number coded with the letter "x" Thus the following forms are acceptable:
33(1)44275211
1(212)3245654x234

WWW or Telex

This field is optionnal and may include either the telex number or the URL (uniform Resource Locator) i.e. the address of a personal Web page. It must be written as:
http://ww.lmcp.jussieu.fr/~epelboin or any valid Web address.

Email Address

E-mail addresses are optional. They must be in the form:
smith@chloe.uni.cr
Please check carefully your address. The last field cr is generally edu for the US, the two letter ISO codes for other countries.

Highest Degree

Highest degree granted. Must contain the following information:

Highest degree. Preferably code it in a way understandable by national from other countries, such as PhD, DSc (habilitations, degrees higher than a PhD...), MSc for up to 5 years of study, BSc for 3 years.
The University where the degree was granted. Indicate the country if not in the residence country.
Year granted.

Year of Birth

Year of birth (optional) coded with four digits such as 1936.

Current Position

This field should make understandable to other persons, your present responsibility and occupation. It must be understandable by nationals from other countries. Thus mentions such as "dozent", Maître de Conférences" are difficult to understand.

Research Interests

This field must contains up to four keywords describing your interests.

A keyword is made of one to a few terms taken from the IUCr official keywords list. An underscore links together words from this list to form one keyword. Thus
- X-Ray_diffraction is one keyword
- X-Ray diffraction means both keywords X-Ray and diffraction separately.

Words not included in the official list will be automatically rejected.

WDC user's guide

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