Hi, I completely forgot to forward this. This is from a private discussion with Jonas Frantz, the author of gperiodic. I asked him, if he is interested in using bodr as base for gperiodic. Here his answer (full-quoted).
-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Von: Jonas Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Re: gperiodic: Some issues and improvements > Datum: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:56:05 +0300 > > Hi, > > it seems (judging from dicts/blueobelisk-dictionary.xml) that defining a > crystal structure for an element is already defined. We would just need > to add the crystal lattice constant (i.e. size of the unit cell, usually > given in angstroms) and then rewrite the crystalsructure.xml to include > the general crystalstructures. > > You have my permision to put this forward. > > Best regards, > > Jonas Frantz > > On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 18:45 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 30.06.2007, 12:26 +0300 schrieb Jonas Frantz: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd love to use bodr, but unfortunately its lacking quite a number of > > > data shown by gperiodic, however, since bodr probably contains more > > > accurate and up-to-date data than gperiodic, I will implement a patching > > > mechanism of gperiodics data from bodr. A second problem is that the > > > crystalstructure data included in bodr doesnt really make any sense. > > > > > > In my opinion the crystal structure data should be implemented by having > > > a field in elements.xml describing the type och structure (i.e. SC, FCC, > > > HCP, BCC, diamond and so on) and a field describing the crystal lattice > > > constant (i.e. the size of one unit cell in the crystal). > > > crystalstructure.xml should then just describe the unit vectors of a > > > certain structure in terms of the crystal lattice constant. This would > > > make a much more consistent and useful dataset. > > > > > > However, this is just mine point of view, a a phycisist. If you want to > > > take bodr in this direction (it would certainly be a logical next step), > > > I will certainly help you out. > > > > Thanks for your comments. Do I have your permission to forward your > > comment to the bodr members (the open mailing list), so it can be > > discussed? > > > > Regards, Daniel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
