[NeXus-committee] Impact of Nexus

[Paul Millar]

Hi Julien,

Thanks for reaching out.

I commend and encourage your efforts in promoting FAIR data. While I 
can't offer much of a historical perspective on NeXus (I'm relatively 
new to the committee), I can offer some other PaN FAIR-related material 
that might be of interest.

In the EU, there were two EU-funded projects that supported FAIR-data 
adoption at photon- and neutron facilities: ExPaNDS[1] and PaNOSC[2].  
ExPaNDS helped various national facilities while PaNOSC targeted the 
larger, international facilities.

Both projects have ended, but the work continues in a science cluster 
(also called "PaNOSC"), through other projects (e.g., OSCARS[3]) and 
other forums (e.g., LEAPS[4] Working-Group 3[5]). At the national level, 
there are projects like FAIRmat[6] that make use of NeXus as a metadata 
standard, providing considerable contributions to NeXus as a result.

I hope this information is helpful for you.

Cheers,
Paul.

[1]    https://expands.eu/
[2]    https://www.panosc.eu/
[3]    https://oscars-project.eu/
[4]    https://www.leaps-initiative.eu/
[5]    https://leaps-wg3.desy.de/
[6]    https://www.fairmat-nfdi.eu/

On 20/03/2025 08.42, Julien Gorenflot via NeXus-committee wrote:
> Sorry, I probably aim to high by contacting you directly, but - as I 
> am trying to promote FAIR data in my institute. And also because we 
> are writing an article that could use some success stories - I would 
> like to know about the impact that NeXus has had over the last 30 
> years on the fields of neutron, x-ray, and muon studies. Would you say 
> it has enabled some larger scale collaborations? Could you think of 
> some findings or articles that would not have been possible without it?
>
> I apologize again, I know you are all probably very busy. Just coming 
> from fields which are really lying being in terms of FAIR data and 
> standardization, I'm really looking up to what you have achieved over 
> those last 30 years.
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> Best regards,
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> Julien
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