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We investigate a prototype application for machine-readable literature. The program is called "pyDataRecognition" and serves as an example of a data-driven literature search, where the literature search query is an experimental data-set provided by the user. The user uploads a powder pattern together with the radiation wavelength. The program compares the user data to a database of existing powder patterns associated with published papers and produces a rank ordered according to their similarity score. The program returns the digital object identifier (doi) and full reference of top ranked papers together with a stack plot of the user data alongside the top five database entries. The paper describes the approach and explores successes and challenges., Comment: 27 pages, 4 figures

Henry Chapman and Xiaodong Zou have recently been appointed as Main Editors of IUCrJ .

The development by a scientific learned society of data description and exchange standards has revolutionized the publication of journal articles in crystallography. Data validation has become an essential element in peer review. Submission, review, and handling of articles are carried out faster, more efficiently, and more consistently. The full data to support a scientific model are made available to the reader, allowing molecular structures to be visualized and analysed. The journals provide a much more complete account of the scientific record, in a model that should appeal to other data-rich scientific disciplines.

The journals of the International Union of Crystallography have grown in size and number over the past 60 years to match developments in scientific practice and technique. High quality of publication has always been at the forefront of editorial policy and ways in which this has been achieved are described. In particular, the development of standard exchange and archive formats for crystallographic data has allowed the editorial office to conduct automated analyses of structural data supporting articles submitted for publication and these analyses assist the scientific editors in careful and critical peer review. The new information technologies of the Internet age have allowed the IUCr journals to flourish and to provide a wide range of powerful services to authors, editors and readers alike. The integration of literature and supporting structural data is of particular importance. The new technologies have also brought fresh economic and cultural challenges, and offer completely new opportunities to disseminate the results of scientific research. The journals continue to respond to these challenges and take advantage of new opportunities in innovative ways.

Keywords: editorial ; Shelx Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-172245doi:10.1107/S0108767310041504View record in Web of Science Record created on 2011-12-16, modified on 2017-05-12