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<p>Hi Gabriel,</p>
<p> NeXus is officially not dependent on HDF5 and we are definitely open minded about implementing the NeXus
<i>data format</i> on <i>file formats</i> other than HDF5. We plan to discuss such issues at our
<a href="https://www.nexusformat.org/Telco_20220426.html" class="OWAAutoLink">next teleconference</a> on April 26th and I invite you to join us. Are there specific container file formats that you are interested in?</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> NeXus <nexus-bounces@shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> on behalf of Gabriel Jover Manas via NeXus <nexus@shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk><br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Gabriel Jover Manas; Nicolas Soler; Emilio Centeno Ortiz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nexus] HDF5 as NeXus file format</font>
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<div>Dear NeXus Users Community,
<p>Last NFDI NeXus Workshop was a great opportunity to meet the community and learn from the experience of other scientists and institutions.</p>
<p>Here at ALBA we are working on the integration of NeXus files in our data analysis workflows.</p>
<p>In this scope we are interested on investigating alternatives to hdf5 as NeXus file format, in terms of slice read/write performance, read-write-many capabilities and convenient reading.</p>
<p>Would the community be open to decoupling the data format (NeXus) from the file format (HDF5)?<br>
Is there already any effort in the community in this direction?<br>
Is anyone else also interested?</p>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Gabriel<br>
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