Section 5.3.3.1.8. The publication and chemical and crystal data wizards

The user may invoke data-entry `wizards', subordinate programs that prompt for particular data items useful for the publication of a crystal structure report or for the deposition of a crystal structure in a database. This is the kind of information that might be requested in the Notes for authors for a journal, and it is helpful if the information is routinely requested from inexperienced authors during normal use of the software. The data-entry tools are known as `wizards' because they will utilize information already in the file.

Hence, as shown in Fig. 5.3.3.3, details of an article's contact author are retrieved from the CIF and used to seed a list of contributing authors. As the address for each author is entered, the program makes each new address available as a stored record for easier input of additional information.

Figure 5.3.3.3 | top | pdf | The enCIFer publication data wizard. Information about the title and authors of an article to be submitted for publication is requested through a sequence of linked dialogue boxes.

Fig. 5.3.3.4 demonstrates the same approach to encouraging authors to supplement information already in the CIF with related chemical (or crystal) data not usually provided by the CIF generators embedded in crystallographic structure determination programs.

Figure 5.3.3.4 | top | pdf | The enCIFer chemical and crystal data wizard.