At 22:14 07/11/99 -0200, Helio Salim de Amorim wrote:
>I think that PowBase is yet a remarkable step and your public domain
>character a very important aspect. I think also, that is not necessary a
>hard standardization but a few directions like,
>- the data must be an ASCII file.
>- unpublished data may be accepted (these are the cases, for example, of
>good measurements of standards or rare materials) and in this case the
>authors must include in the data file a heading (or footnote) with a
>description of relevant experimental conditions and comments about the
>sample ( that typically presented in a regular paper).
>By our part PowBase have total approve and a sincere personal thanks for the
>initiative.
Thanks a lot, it was your suggestion !
Powbase has already reached some cruising speed with 79 patterns
added in 5 days. Theoretically, 190 days would suffice for being
the equivalent of the 3000 patterns in PDF-3. Of course,
maintaining that speed depends on you.
http://sdpd.univ-lemans.fr/powbase/
The current entry format replies to almost all recent suggestions,
and it is really the most simple I can imagine (free format).
It is not CIF nor CIF star, but those formats will be accepted too.
Best,
Armel Le Bail
http://www.cristal.org/
