The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) launched its website (with journal tables of contents and associated structural data files) in 1994, and its electronic journal publishing platform in 1999. From the outset these publishing activities have been driven by the vision of interactive semantic publications linking data and publications that Murray-Rust and Rzepa have pioneered in the field of chemistry [1, 2]. In turn, the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) released by the IUCr in 1991 as an information interchange standard [3] has informed the structural content of chemical markup language (CML). CIF was designed from the outset as an extensible standard, and now covers many areas of crystallography. It forms the basis for integrated data and publishing workflows linking laboratories, data repositories, publishers and databases, and has been an important factor in improving the quality of published crystal structures.[1] Murray-Rust, P. (1998). Acta Cryst. D54, 1065-1070.[2] Murray-Rust, P. & Rzepa, H. S. (1999). J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 39, 928-942.[3] Hall, S. R., Allen, F. H. & Brown, I. D. (1991). Acta Cryst. A47, 655-685.

Crystallographic publishing in the semantic age

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