[Nexus] Where has NeXus made its impact?

[Pete R. Jemian]

One management question came up following the recent
2010 12th APS - ESRF - SPring-8 Workshop:

	Where has NeXus made its impact?

The question starts with the assumption that the identified advantages
of using a common data format have been realized in the community and
asks for the experience after the many years of use.  What are the
success stories?  What things have been made possible by the use of
NeXus that were not possible or just not being done without NeXus?

For example, the Introduction in the manual starts with this text:
"In recent years, a number of scientists and computer programmers 
working in neutron and synchrotron facilities around the world came to 
the conclusion that a common data format would fulfill a valuable 
function in the scattering community. As instrumentation becomes more 
complex and data visualization become more challenging, individual 
scientists, or even institutions, have found it difficult to keep up 
with new developments. A common data format makes it easier, both to 
exchange experimental results and to exchange ideas about how to analyze 
them. It promotes greater cooperation in software development and 
stimulate the design of more sophisticated visualization tools."

Where has this investment already paid off?

Pete



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  Pete R. Jemian, Ph.D.                <jemian at anl.gov>
  Beam line Controls and Data Acquisition, Group Leader
  Advanced Photon Source,   Argonne National Laboratory
  Argonne, IL  60439                   630 - 252 - 3189
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