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Nexus Characterisation - STFC

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Created by Holly Zhen on Sep 19, 2012 · last edited by Holly Zhen · on Sep 19, 2012 (view history) · 19 versions

Title
Nexus Characterisation

Detailed description

There are a lot of tools available for characterisation. There are native NeXus tools, Apache Tika and Jhove2. As Nexus is a scientific data format, the issue here is which one of these tools is best at format identification and validation.

Issue champion
""Holly Zhen

Other interested parties
SCAPE project

Possible Solution approaches

comparing native NeXus tools with Jhove2 and Apache Tika

Context
The Nexus datasets from ISIS are not publicly accessible, so it is hard for developers to work/test with these particular datasets.

Lessons Learned
Native NeXus tools already provide characterisation functions, so there isn't really the need to use Jhove2 or Apache Tika unless more complex functions are required.

Datasets

Free sample datasets available online herer

Solutions
Reference to the appropriate Solution page(s), by hyperlink.