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Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server

The IUCr Executive Committee approved in 1996 the establishment of a pan-crystallography server, combining the functions of the existing IUCr web services, the Crystallography World Wide pages maintained in Geneva, and the SINCRIS software pages maintained in Paris, together with future contributors of large collections of other crystallographic information. The complete set of information services was to be mirrored at appropriate sites worldwide, to provide convenient access to the most suitable network access points.

The project is more complex than the straightforward mirroring of static files or html pages, since the IUCr information services include access to databases that should not be mirrored, for technical reasons or on grounds of confidentiality. The following working proposals have been adopted for the initial implementation of the pan-crystallography system.


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