[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would just like to draw your
> attention to the NeXus project, which has the (ambitious) purpose of
> developing a unified data format for x-rays and neutrons.
> http://www.neutron.anl.gov/NEXUS/
> http://lns00.psi.ch/NeXus/
The NeXus format is an excellent way to deal in binary with the large
amounts of data generated by many energy-dispersive and PSD instruments.
CIF stinks for this and my impressions are that imgCIF is a Band-Aid
that is far less versatile than NeXus. NeXus is also designed for other
types of scattering experiments than diffraction.
The unanswered question that faces the powder-diffraction
crystallographic community is, if crystallographers standardize on CIF
for communication of structural results (pretty much a fact already) and
major neutron and x-ray sources standardize on NeXus (pretty likely),
how does the gap get bridged?
Brian
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