Crystallographic Information Framework

• Name: Crystallographic Information Framework
• Short Name: CIF
• Description: The acronym CIF is used both for the Crystallographic Information File, the data exchange standard file format of Hall, Allen & Brown (1991) (see Documentation), and for the Crystallographic Information Framework, a broader system of exchange protocols based on data dictionaries and relational rules expressible in different machine-readable manifestations, including, but not restricted to, Crystallographic Information File and XML.
• Web Link: https://www.iucr.org/resources/cif
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• Disciplines: Geology
• Keywords: crystallographic data