Further Development of EXFOR

(Consultant's meeting 6 - 9 March 2012, IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria)

Task (NRDC-2011, Action-A3)

Assess the possibility of organizing a working group with the final goal to prepare a new experimental data library format

Purpose of the meeting

To assess needs and ways for development of EXFOR format to meet future requirements

Subjects/issues to address

  1. How to make the EXFOR rather flexible for extentions?
  2. Universal coding of complex or new type of nuclear reactions
  3. Formats for exchange/storage/dissemination: requirements, advantages/disadvantages, problems (XML/Root/etc.)
  4. Software problems related to formats
  5. etc.

Opening


See [Agenda], [Summary] and [Final Report].


Contributions by participants: documents, presentations, letters,...
Documents, presentations, relevant to the subject of the meeting
Old proposals for change EXFOR format, extend EXFOR contents, software development, etc.
EXFOR input/output formats
*See overview of output formats of NDS Web retrieval system: [here]
Topics and design: by V.Zerkin