[NeXus-committee] NeXus paper v10, NIAC

Fri Sep 5 16:41:32 BST 2014

As for Argonne, we are also required to acknowledge our funding source… However, our standard acknowledgement does include the contract number:

Work at Los Alamos National Laboratory was supported by the Lujan Center at LANSCE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.

Bjørn

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From: Osborn, Raymond [mailto:rosborn at anl.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 9:30 AM
To: Pete Jemian
Cc: nexus-committee at nexusformat.org Committee
Subject: Re: [NeXus-committee] NeXus paper v10, NIAC

This has changed at Argonne recently. We are not required to put the contract number any more but we do have to specify the DOE division. Unfortunately, Pete and I are funded by two different divisions.

We would need something like:

Work at Argonne was supported by the Scientific User Facilities Division and the Materials Science and Engineering Division, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy.

I’m afraid that we would have to insist on including an acknowledgement like that because our funding depends on it.

With best regards,
Ray

On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Pete Jemian <prjemian at gmail.com<mailto:prjemian at gmail.com>> wrote:

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>
<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
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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/<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>  . If someone is
unhappy about this, let us know.

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APS NOW!
Especially for non US citizens it takes several weeks to process. If
you are unsure, rather
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Best Regards,

   Mark Koennecke

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