Design Issues

If you have a specific subject concerning the NeXus format design, please add it to the following list and start a new page (see the [help pages]((Contents.html “wikilink”) for instructions on adding new pages). If you want others to participate, you should announce the new discussion on the NeXus Mailing List.

Current Discussions

• Structure of NeXus files - basic questions:

  • Objects or Interfaces

  • How to avoid name clashes during future extensions of the Nexus standard

• Geometry questions:

• Data

  • Associating Axes with Data

• Thumbnails for Nexus files

• file_id attribute for Nexus files

• Scaled Data

• [NXmonochromator and inheritance] (NXmonochromator_and_inheritance.html “wikilink”)

Coma Discussions

These are issues which have not been attended too for a long time.

• Containers and Inheritance - XLST and Reusable definitions

• [Units] (Units.html “wikilink”)

Closed Discussions

• NXaperture and Slits - implemented in form of NXslit and NXpinhole

• Multi Method Instruments - implemented in form of NXsubentry

• Object oriented NeXus

• 2014_How_to_find_default_data - a proposal for the 2014 NIAC meeting

• Proposal: NeXus Coordinates

• [Coordinate Systems] (Coordinate_Systems.html “wikilink”)

• Extension of NeXus Coordinate Systems

• Indirect Time-of-Flight and Coordinates

• NXgeometry and NXshape - documentation and review

• Detector Geometry

• Update for NXflou application definition

• NeXus CIF Integration

  • ConcordanceDiscussion

• Connecting NXdata to NXdetector

• [Double Linking] (Double_Linking.html “wikilink”)

• NXmeasurement

• Proposal: NeXus Errors

• Storing Event Data

• NXdetector documentation