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= Definition =

A system of standards and specifications for the standardised exchange and archiving of crystallographic data built upon, but not restricted to, the [[Crystallographic Information File]].

In addition to file formats, the framework includes formal relations between specific data items expressed in a machine-readable [[Dictionary definition language]], controlled vocabularies, constraints on allowable values of certain numeric data, and procedures for validating the self-consistency of a crystal structure model.

Responsibility for the maintenance of the standard is vested in COMCIFS, a Committee of the [[International Union of Crystallography]].


= See also =

*Brown, I. D. &amp; and McMahon, B. (2002). ''CIF: the computer language of crystallography'', [http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0108768102003464 ''Acta Cryst.'' B'''58''', 317-324].
*''International Tables for Crystallography, Volume G''

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