The NeXus data format

Könnecke, Mark; Akeroyd, Frederick A.; Bernstein, Herbert J.; Brewster, Aaron S.; Campbell, Stuart I.; Clausen, Björn; Cottrell, Stephen; Hoffmann, Jens Uwe; Jemian, Pete R.; Männicke, David; Osborn, Raymond; Peterson, Peter F.; Richter, Tobias; Suzuki, Jiro; Watts, Benjamin; Wintersberger, Eugen; Wuttke, Joachim

doi:10.1107/S1600576714027575

The NeXus data format

Journal Article · Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576714027575· OSTI ID:1212697

Könnecke, Mark; Akeroyd, Frederick A.; Bernstein, Herbert J.; Brewster, Aaron S.; Campbell, Stuart I.; Clausen, Björn; Cottrell, Stephen; Hoffmann, Jens Uwe; Jemian, Pete R.; Männicke, David; Osborn, Raymond; Peterson, Peter F.; Richter, Tobias; Suzuki, Jiro; Watts, Benjamin; Wintersberger, Eugen; Wuttke, Joachim

NeXus is an effort by an international group of scientists to define a common data exchange and archival format for neutron, X-ray and muon experiments. NeXus is built on top of the scientific data format HDF5 and adds domain-specific rules for organizing data within HDF5 files, in addition to a dictionary of well defined domain-specific field names. The NeXus data format has two purposes. First, it defines a format that can serve as a container for all relevant data associated with a beamline. This is a very important use case. Second, it defines standards in the form of application definitions for the exchange of data between applications. NeXus provides structures for raw experimental data as well as for processed data.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1212697

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1225003
OSTI ID: 1544712
OSTI ID: 1391966

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--14-27449; PII: S1600576714027575

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online), Journal Name: Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 48; ISSN 1600-5767; ISSN JACGAR

Publisher:: International Union of CrystallographyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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