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Description
Volume G of the International Tables for Crystallography describes the CIF format. From their page:
Volume G describes the standard data exchange and archival file format (the Crystallographic Information File, or CIF) used throughout crystallography. It provides in-depth information vital for small-molecule, inorganic and macromolecular crystallographers, mineralogists, chemists, materials scientists, solid-state physicists and others who wish to record or use the results of a single-crystal or powder diffraction experiment. The volume also provides the detailed data ontology necessary for programmers and database managers to design interoperable computer applications. The accompanying software includes the CIF dictionaries in machine-readable form and a collection of libraries and utility programs.
This issue is that PaNET provides no documentation on how to embed a PaNET term in a CIF file.
Ideally, such documentation should describe (or reference) some standard mechanism. Further, this mechanism could be identified through the usual CIF standard's governance procedure.