The NeXus data format

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

doi:10.1107/S1600576714027575

The NeXus data format

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

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	301-305
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Applied Crystallography
Volume	48
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576714027575
State	Published - Feb 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

HDF5
NeXus data format
data archiving
data exchange
platform-independent

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Könnecke, M., Akeroyd, F. A., Bernstein, H. J., Brewster, A. S., Campbell, S. I., Clausen, B., Cottrell, S., Hoffmann, J. U., Jemian, P. R., Männicke, D., Osborn, R., Peterson, P. F., Richter, T., Suzuki, J., Watts, B., Wintersberger, E., & Wuttke, J. (2015). The NeXus data format. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 48(1), 301-305. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576714027575

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