In 2015 we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Cambridge Structural Database - the world’s primary repository for small molecule crystal structure data. This has come a long way since its initial origins as a series of printed indices first published in 1965. Today crystallographers across the globe deposit over 60,000 datasets per year and researchers across disciplines apply the knowledge derived from over 800,000 structures to a range of scientific challenges.<br/><br/>A key driver in the development of the Cambridge Structural Database has been the input and support of the wider research community. This has come from academia and industry, publishers and researchers, scientific unions and individuals. This presentation, timed to coincide with the end of the 50th anniversary year of the Cambridge Structural Database, will provide a brief reflection on the last half century. We’ll look at the key moments where community engagement was pivotal to the establishment and evolution of a widely respected disciplinary data repository.

Community-driven disciplinary data repositories: A case study

251st National Meeting (2016)

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