[Nexus] NeXus at your facility / NIAC meeting

Tue Sep 18 11:42:56 BST 2018

Hi Steve (and everyone else),

Those are obviously relevant topics. Traditionally the NIAC agrees the agenda in the form of priorities and time boxes at the beginning of the meeting.
So I cannot promise any particular topics will or will not be covered. Especially since I may be relieved of my duties as chair at the very beginning.

That said I would support a discussion of application definitions or alternatives as a tool for the future. 
I think we have sufficient background in the NIAC to have a sensible conversation.

For the other two items - FAIR and ontologies - I might benefit from some input. Any particular use cases, requirements, suggestions or a proposal would help guide us.
An ontology might address some of the database storage for FAIR, right? Personally I am very interested!

Best wishes,
Tobias

On 18/09/2018, 12:23, "NeXus on behalf of steve.collins at diamond.ac.uk" <nexus-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk on behalf of steve.collins at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:

    Thanks Tobias,

    I'm interested in several aspects. Perhaps most importantly, formalization of minimum information required for specific automated workflows to function. The NeXus manual describes Application Definitions for this purpose. These are used in a few key areas but uptake is low. I am keen to either have a strong statement of long-term commitment to Application Definitions, or agreed commitment to an alternative.

    Also interested in NeXus classes for derived data and their interaction with databases etc (tackling the 'Findability' aspect of FAIR).

    And possibly formalization of NeXus terms in an ontology.

    Is this the kind of stuff that might be discussed?

    Cheers,

    Steve

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    From: NeXus <nexus-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> on behalf of Tobias Richter <Tobias.Richter at esss.se>
    Sent: 17 September 2018 08:43
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    Subject: Re: [Nexus] NeXus at your facility / NIAC meeting

    Hi Steve,

    This sounds sensible. I'll leave it to you guys to come up with the right text for Diamond on the facility page.

    Domain experts are welcome at the NIAC. Mark B can inform you about the traditional entertainment value of the event and can tell you about what's going to be on the agenda. Maybe there are specific topics you want to propose for your benefit? Then you can decide whether it makes sense for you to join. I'm obviously always happy to see you!

    Cheers,
    Tobias

    On 16/09/2018, 10:41, "NeXus on behalf of steve.collins at diamond.ac.uk" <nexus-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk on behalf of steve.collins at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:

        Hi Tobias et al,

        We reviewed this at Diamond last year and plan to do so again in the coming weeks. We have three levels of adoption: (1) writing hdf5 files that vaguely adhere to the NeXus structure, (2) writing validated NeXus files and (3) taking full advantage of the rich features of NeXus for automatic work-flows. Most of our beamline are in category (1) but this is very much work in progress.

        Mark Basham is on the NIAC. I am also interested in participating although more from a scientific than technical aspect. Would this make sense?

        Steve Collins (Diamond Light Source)

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        From: NeXus <nexus-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> on behalf of Tobias Richter <Tobias.Richter at esss.se>
        Sent: 15 September 2018 19:07
        To: nexus at nexusformat.org
        Cc: Zdenek Matej
        Subject: [Nexus] NeXus at your facility / NIAC meeting

        Dear all,

        It would be nice to know the status of NeXus adoption at your facility.

        The page we have for this on the NeXus web page is getting tremendously outdated: https://www.nexusformat.org/Facilities.html
        An update via email to me or a simple pull request page can fix this for your facility (new entries obviously welcome as well): https://github.com/nexusformat/wiki/blob/master/content/Facilities.md

        The idea is not just to collect glowing success stories. We have a NeXus Committee meeting coming up and can put any stumbling blocks in your adoption of NeXus on the agenda: https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC2018.html

        If your facility is not (yet) represented in the NIAC, please get in touch. The process for joining is simple enough: https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC.html

        Best wishes,
        Tobias
        (outgoing chair of NIAC)

        --
        European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden

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