Hi,
Rich Lysakowski (lysakowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), the project leader of the
Analytical Data Interchange and Storage Standards (ADISS) Project, has just
made available a preprint of a paper that describes the ADISS Project and
its use of netCDF. A file containing the paper in PostScript form is
available for anonymous FTP from
host: unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3]
file: pub/adiss.ps
According to the paper
The ADISS Project is a global, public-domain project that includes formal
standards bodies (ISO, ASTM, IUPAC), government organizations (NIST), many
scientific instrument and software vendors, and end-user companies ...
The group is addressing the creation of standards for communication and
storage of analytical data in many areas, including chromatography, mass
spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and
electrochemistry. This paper summarizes the ADISS data model, systems
architecture, and software tool framework developed over the last three
years. It also summarizes the associated work of the Analytical Instrument
Association and the American Society for Mass Spectroscopy, and their
reasons for adopting netCDF as a first implementation of an ADISS system.
The paper makes a good case for standardizing on interfaces rather than
formats.
--Russ
