[Nexus-developers] Workshop organization

[Andy Gotz]

Dear Mark,

we are happy to invite you to the workshop. We are also happy if you 
want to organise it at PSI. My only personal wish is that we spend most 
of the workshop discussing data formats for data analysis. This is where 
we have a need right now. We (ESRF) do have some money from VEDAC - and 
EU networking project. We could also try to find some internal funds.

Best regards

Andy

p.s. please excuse delays in my answering email from now and over the 
next few days. I am leaving for Japan tomorrow morning for a conference 
and I don't know when I will be fully back online.

Wellenreuther, Gerd wrote:
> Dear Mark,
>
> first I would like to thank you for your quick answer and the 
> willingness to cooperate. I think it would be best to first do the 
> workshop at the ESRF, preferably with as many people from NeXus as 
> possible. But the scope of the workshop should be rather open, not 
> only about NeXus, but about HDF5 and even other dataformats.
>
> During that workshop it can then be discussed to which extent NeXus 
> will be used, and if/how some people should try to realize our 
> wishes/results, e.g. by going to the PANDATA-meeting. What do you think?
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have any money to organize a meeting. But 
> maybe this will change over time.
>
> Cheers, Gerd
>
> Mark Koennecke wrote:
>> Dear Gerd Wellenreuther,
>>
>> Wellenreuther, Gerd wrote:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> right now there is a discussion about how to use HDF5/NeXus-files 
>>> for both quick sharing of data as well as use as the primary 
>>> dataformat at synchrotron radiation sources (e.g. PETRA, ESRF, 
>>> Soleil). Maybe you could help in the discussion and would like to 
>>> join? We are also thinking about having a workshop at the ESRF 
>>> either this year or beginning of next year. Please have a look.
>>>
>>> You can find the discussion at 
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/mahid/topics . If you would like to 
>>> participate the easiest way is to tell me, then I can invite you.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your attention,
>>>
>>> Gerd
>>>
>>
>> During the last PANDATA-meeting, we decided to look into organising a 
>> data formats workshop, probably at PSI.
>> PANDATA is a european initiative for collaboration on data sharing, 
>> data  catalogs, authentication and some.  I think
>> DESY is represented by Ralph Schluenzen. Back to the data formats 
>> meeting: we intended to have both NeXus experts
>> and someone from the CBF, imageCIF community, hopefully Andrew 
>> Hammersly attend. The idea came up as I realized
>> that many of the hows and whys of NeXus seem not to be known in the 
>> synchrotron community. Thus the meeting is
>> meant to both disseminate information and to discuss synchrotron data 
>> format problems. Our timeline was early
>> spring. I henceforth suggest that we join forces on this issue and 
>> organise this together. I would not mind if this meeting
>> happens in Hamburg either. Do you have any money to organsise this? I 
>> have not, yet.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think,
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>                 Mark Koennecke
>>
>