Telco 20240311
Date
Monday, 11th March, 15:00 UTC
Connect
Agenda
- NIAC meeting at ESRF
- issues
Present
AB,
Minutes
- NIAC 2024
During the meeting, ensure people that are remote are notified that a vote is coming. Need time for offline people to digest proposals before votes.
Use plenary vs working sessions, multiple of each per day
- NeXus front page says next meeting is code camp 2023
- Reviewed schema bugfixes in https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1370
- PM: sidestep by setting up a different way of specifying examples (nxdl namespace for example).
- PJ: this is about how to provide examples of unit types in the nexus schema. Each unit type needs an example to avoid confusionRevisit discussion of general
- NXtransformations
- AB: NXtransformations that are rotations are full basis transformations: rotation + the vector offsetHJB: non-problem, as transformation type can be omitted, for “general” basis definitions like gravity
- PM: is there an example with the current NXtransformations are insufficient?
- PM: upcoming EU funding may be available from a broad project that includes photons/neutrons.
- There are open calls for 1-2 year projects, 1 FTE.
- We could apply for some funding to update toolage.
- Call in spring (opens this friday) and sept.
- AB: remember what the NIAC is: specs, docs/examples/validator. Maybe validator help would be useful?
- MK: cnxvalidate could use an update? Should we have a reimplementation in python?
- AB: Touch base with Ray for some NeXpy support?
- PM: will think and maybe bring a proposal back
- HB: include h5py if working on NeXpy
- PM: looking for a library that exposes base class as python types
- PJ: punx has this (AB to what extent?): https://github.com/prjemian/punx
- RB: has a nxstixm file validator: https://github.com/RussBerg/nxstxm_validator
- RB: has code for autogenerating NeXus files
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