Re: ICDD and Armel le Bail's free Powbase database

2000-01-06 Thread Armel Le Bail
Alan Hewat wrote: >Actually the ICDD database contains many more patterns, and contrary to >what was written, does contain calculated patterns from most of the ICSD >database as well (50479 entries) *including* single crystal entries. PowBase is playing the same game as PDF-3 (not P

ICDD and Armel le Bail's free Powbase database

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Hewat
crystallographic databases is appropriate in this age of new information technology. Armel Le Bail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cette année pourrait voir la commercialisation de PDF-3 >par l'ICDD, une base de données contenant 3000 diagrammes > >Une alternative, PowBase,

Re: [Re: [sdpd] Re: PowBase]

1999-11-08 Thread Armel Le Bail
vide a complete database is evident with the recent add of calculated patterns from ICSD and in a near future from CSD. The size of PowBase for 80 patterns is 800Ko, thanks to compression by Winzip. A base of 3000 patterns would be 30Mo, and this is not a problem, even on a simple PC with full Inter

Re: [Re: [sdpd] Re: PowBase]

1999-11-08 Thread Andrew Wills
Dear All, I think that standardisation is an important topic at the moment- the dawn of a database of diffraction patterns. If you take a look through the different formats that GSAS and FULLPROF can accept (I name those only for convenience) it is a bit of a jungle- I include of course both 2-ax

Re: [sdpd] Re: PowBase

1999-11-08 Thread Armel Le Bail
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 a

Re: [sdpd] Re: [PowBase]

1999-11-07 Thread Armel Le Bail
Lachlan wrote : >When/if powder programs are CIF friendly, the viewer used >could be up to the user - i.e., viewing in Q space in >programs such as Winplotr. The current format used in PowBase is diplayed also by Winplotr (INSTRM=0). >Initially, it would be nice if authors o

Re: [PowBase]

1999-11-07 Thread L. Cranswick
While the database system Armel has done looks good,, this still leaves the problem of a common file format. If CIF was used, many of the problems/requests described by Andrew would become non-issues. CIF Homepage at: http://www.se.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/ Powder CIF Dictionary http://www.

RE: [PowBase]

1999-01-03 Thread Hengning Wu
CTED] -Original Message- From: Andrew Wills [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 3:47 PM To: RIETVELD_L Distribution List Subject:Re: [PowBase] Armel, Not bad for a few hours work! I hope that everyone g

Re: [PowBase]

1999-01-03 Thread Andrew Wills
Armel, Not bad for a few hours work! I hope that everyone gives some feedback because this is a great opportunity to decide what we as users want in a database. Perhaps we should also return to one of the old chestnuts (quaint English expression that means 'classic argument') from the powder di

PowBase

1999-01-03 Thread Armel Le Bail
Let us discuss on something concrete. I do not believe that a database of powder patterns needs necessarily to use all the definitions which are in the Powder CIF dictionary for being a useful database. So that, in 2 hours, I have built PowBase, containing now 2 powder patterns (and probably