[NeXus-committee] Fwd: beamline components glossary

["V. Armando Solé"]

Hi,

As discussed in last NIAC meeting, I have asked my colleague Manuel 
Sanchez (srio at esrf.fr) to take a look at the NeXus classes concerning 
optical elements. Manuel is a physicist, a programmer and a specialist 
on X-ray tracing (he is a SHADOW maintainer). He has started to take a 
look and he has sent the mail below to several colleagues from different 
facilities. I just forward his mail to this private list to let you now 
he has started to take a look. I will let you know if he reaches to any 
conclusion but from his mail I deduce you can also ask him directly.

Best regards,

Armando
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Hello,

After several discussions with some of you, it seems convenient to 
define a glossary of variables and terms for beamline optics to be used 
in future software with applications in:

    - standarize input/output for optics simulations software
    - write GUIs
    - use standard data format (HDF5)
    - exchange input/output among different codes
    - synchronize our activity with people in other domains 
(accelerators, data acquisition, data analysis)

after looking to some existing glossaries (e.g., Nexus 
http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/ClassDefinitions-Base.html#NXattenuator 
), I found that nothing is really suitable for us, so I propose to 
discuss among us how to do it in a better way.

As a starting point, I have created a very preliminary draft document 
with a list of what I think could be a list of terms and parameters, and 
how to classify them. I am sure many things are missing, other not well 
adapted, etc. I volunteer to coordinate this work and get all your 
comments with the aim of creating a dictionary suitable for us. So, 
please send me your comments, suggestions and ideas in any format, I'll 
try to merge them in a new document. You may also reply to the whole 
list if wanted.

Thanks a lot for your collaboration,

Manuel

PS: Please pass this email to other people that may be interested. And 
let me know if you want to be removed from this list.

-- 
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Manuel Sanchez del Rio
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
BP 220
38043 Grenoble-Cedex 9 (France)
email:srio at esrf.eu
Tel +33-476 882513 Fax +33-476 882542http://www.esrf.eu




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