Telco 20230920

Date

Monday, 20th September, 15:00 UTC

Connect

Agenda

Present

HB, PC, CZ, BB, LG, AB, SB, PM, WdN

Minutes

  • https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1312
    accepted as bugfix

  • https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/1310
    AB: recommendation should be clear and we should add code snippets to help the community
    PM: are test cases available?
    SB: yes, we have prepared test cases and code snippets what we can share.

  • https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1246
    AB: Detector Channel, @default_slice is added
    WdN: detector channel can be auxiliary_signal
    AB: channel is more than a simple auxiliary_signal as it has additional metadata
    HB: Is VDS assumed to be supported? If so, old hdf5 libs (<1.10) should be deprecated. It should be a separate issue to be voted on.
    SB: NeXus does not expect officially hdf5 as a backend, but we could recommend a min version of hdf5 if it is used.
    LG: NeXus is a data format and not a file format
    AB: Yes, but we can give examples on how to write a file using hdf5
    SB: NXdata is independent of NXdetector, but NXdetector/plot[NXdata] can be specialised to use channels as auxiliary_signals if needed.
    AB: Let us call in Dectris, and discuss it with them next week

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