A data format to encompass all formats - myth or reality?

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A data format to encompass all formats - myth or reality?

Motivation

What are the ideals?

What would be nice?

How to achieve these ideals?

WHAT?

What is a measurement?

Aside - N-Tuples

Measurement n-tuple

Advantages of seeing an experiment as a set of n-tuples

Measurements have little hierarchy

Less need for a complex instrument definition

Reduces naming problem

Measurements give rise to a notation for data analysis

RECAP

Data into any format ?

Is there a better way?

HOW?

Operations with n-tuples

Commercial use of n-tuples?

Commercial solution

Some simple tuple data

What else do we get?

Wide availability of tools

Links with NeXus

Links with Open GENIE

N-tuples in Open GENIE

The demo!

Something much easier

Using Genuine data

Plotted by MS Access 97

Summary

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