[NeXus-committee] "Overview of X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy standards" paper

[Paul Millar]

Hi everyone,

This is perhaps a little off-topic, but I think there's enough overlap 
that people might find this interesting.

Brief background:

The EU is funding the European Open-Science Cloud (EOSC) through various 
grants.  One grant is funding a project called OSCARS[1].  Roughly 60% 
of the OSCARS budget is being spent providing a kind of seed funding 
(called "cascading grants"), that funds small projects (~1 FTE for 1--2 
years)[2].  Some 59 projects[3] are being funded (so far).  One of the 
science clusters is "PaNOSC" (photon and neutron facilities), and one of 
the successful PaNOSC projects (funded through a OSCARS cascading grant) 
is called CDIF-4-XAS[4].

 From the project page, the CDIF-4-XAS project[4]:

 > [The project] will enable new science by making it easier to access, 
combine and reuse XAS data across research infrastructures (RIs) and 
disciplines.

The project has recently published a landscape report on XAS 
metadata[5].  Naturally, this mentions NeXus.

Cheers,
Paul.

[1] https://oscars-project.eu/
[2] https://oscars-project.eu/open-calls
[3] https://oscars-project.eu/projects
[4] 
https://oscars-project.eu/projects/cdif-4-xas-describing-x-ray-spectroscopy-data-cross-domain-use
[5] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14920226