[NeXus-committee] NeXus paper v10, NIAC

[Pete Jemian]

I will check if a funding acknowledgement is required by my laboratory.

Rather than debate which institute's contributions merit inclusion in 
the acknowledgements, perhaps we measure how large this section might 
become.

Here is the acknowledgement used by other APS authors in a recent 
manuscript of similar scope (data_exchange: a method to store data in an 
HDF5 file):

Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

Pete

On 9/5/2014 9:40 AM, Mark Könnecke wrote:
> Stephen and all,
>
> Am 01.09.2014 um 16:49 schrieb stephen.cottrell at stfc.ac.uk
> <mailto:stephen.cottrell at stfc.ac.uk>:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>> I think version 10 of this paper reads well. Just a few things I
>> spotted as I read the draft …
>> It would be good if you could add an acknowledgement to the EU funding
>> received by the muon community for this project (this will help me a
>> lot with the reporting for the NMI3-II project), i.e.
>> Acknowledgement
>> The muon community are grateful to the European Commission for
>> supporting the development of the NeXus data format for μSR, under
>> both 6th Framework Programme through the Key Action: Strengthening the
>> European Research Area, Research Infrastructures: Contract no:
>> RII3-CT-2003-505925, and the 7th Framework Programme through the Key
>> Action: Strengthening the European Research Area, Research
>> Infrastructures. Contact no: CPCSA_INFRA-2008-1.1.1 Number 226507-NMI3.
>
> I have no problems working in the stuff below. With the acknowledgment I
> am not so sure. IMHO, muSR is a small but important part of NeXus and
> the EU contribution appears to me to be to small as to warrant a big
> acknowledgment.
>
> What do oner people think?
>
> Regards,
>
>       Mark
>
>> I think a direct reference to the NIAC would be useful in the paper,
>> perhaps ‘[refNIAC]’ ‘http://wiki.nexusformat.org/NIAC’
>> <http://wiki.nexusformat.org/NIAC%E2%80%99>which could be cited at the
>> end of sentence one of section VIII and also in the last sentence of
>> the paper. Actually, I’d suggest rewording the last two sentences
>> thus, ‘More information, including a full PDF manual, can be found on
>> the project website [10], while members of the NIAC [refNIAC] always
>> welcome correspondence concerning the development of the NeXus data
>> format.’
>> Within the fourth bullet point on page 1, it’s unusual to start a
>> sentence with ‘or’ (a conjunction) … I think this point might best be
>> rewritten as a single sentence ‘Scientific integrity is jeopardized if
>> the data cannot be understood or important elements are missing.’
>> Entirely optional, but I’d suggest rewording the paragraph on page 4
>> that starts ‘Many fine details of the NeXus …’. Perhaps ‘Detailed
>> consideration has been given to the composition of the NeXus format,
>> with a comprehensive set of rules for creating a NeXus file now being
>> well defined. For the sake of brevity an exhaustive description of the
>> format is not given here, instead the reader is referred to the NeXus
>> manual [5] where a full listing of the rules is presented. However, to
>> illustrate the attention to detail given in the definition of the
>> format, example rules include:’
>> Steve
>> *From:*NeXus-committee
>> [mailto:nexus-committee-bounces at nexusformat.org]*On Behalf Of*Mark
>> Könnecke
>> *Sent:*28 August 2014 15:04
>> *To:*nexus-committee at nexusformat.org
>> <mailto:nexus-committee at nexusformat.org>
>> *Subject:*[NeXus-committee] NeXus paper v10, NIAC
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the feedback on the NeXus paper has died down somewhat.  I need all
>> coauthors consent in order
>> to submit the paper. In order to move this forward, I suggest the
>> following procedure:
>>
>> * Attached you find a new draft.
>> * You have two weeks to comment. After that period, I assume consent
>> and proceed to submit the paper.
>> * Significant changes to meaning and content of the paper will give
>> rise to a new version. Which in turn
>>   will restart the two week comment period. I do not want to restart
>> for minor spelling or wording changes.
>>
>> Please have another look and let us move this on. If you do not
>> consent to the way I handle this, please
>> voice your concern.
>>
>> The copyright for the paper will be with RSI. They publish under a
>> creative commons attribution license 3.0,
>> see:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  . If someone is
>> unhappy about this, let us know.
>>
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>>
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>> you are unsure, rather
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>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>     Mark Koennecke
>>
>>
>>
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