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Re: Instrument Middleware Project

• To: imgcif@instrumentmiddleware.org
• Subject: Re: Instrument Middleware Project
• From: "Herbert J. Bernstein" <yaya@bernstein-plus-sons.com>
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:07:19 -0500
• Cc: imgcif-l@bnl.gov
• In-Reply-To: <3FD4EBA2.5050606@instrumentmiddleware.org>
• References: <3FD4EBA2.5050606@instrumentmiddleware.org>

To the Instrument Middleware group:

   Please pardon the delay in my response to this interesting message.
Even though your message was posted on 8 December, it just now arrived in
my mailbox.

   I have been heavily involved both in dictionary development for
imgCIF and in software for its use.

   I hope that all those involved with the development of the imgCIF
dictionary and with software for imgCIF will be interested in exploring
this exciting possibility further.  I would encourage everyone to respond
and to copy messages on the subject to the imgCIF list.

   I for one, would be interested in seeing what additions you may
need to the dictionary, and what functionality should be added
to CBFlib.  We will be happy to cooperate.

   Regards,
      Herbert J. Bernstein

At 4:22 PM -0500 12/8/03, Instrument Middleware wrote:
>With this email we would like to bring the attention of this discussion
>list to a recently NSF funded project titled Instrument Middleware (IM)
>project [1]. The Instrument Middleware project is part of a larger NSF
>funded project called "NSF Middleware Initiative" [2].
>
>One of our goals with the IM project is to incorporate scientific
>instruments as first class members of a Grid computing environment using
>standard Web service interfaces. We have published a white paper, which
>upon request can be sent to those interested.
>
>Our group includes X-ray crystallographers with many years of experience
>and accustomed to a wide variety of diffractometers equipped with area
>detectors (imageplate/CCD) and scintillation detectors.
>
>During our initial research we have become familiar with the wide
>variety of formats that instrument manufacturer (e.g. CCD detector
>manufacturers) use to describe/record data, such as X-ray diffraction
>data. We are also aware of most of the different constraints and
>requirements that diffractometer instrument manufacturers have imposed
>on their instruments and software.
>
>Encouraged by the efforts of the img-CIF/CBF community, we believe
>that a well descriptive meta-data format supported by the scientific
>community and the instrument manufacturers will be able to provide a
>more unified data format for a wide range of CCD detectors.
>
>We are interested in investigating the possibilities of using
>img-CIF/CBF as meta-data format in our project, as a standard meta data
>format to access any kind of diffraction CCD detector image.
>
>Therefore, for those interested in any aspect of this project, we would
>like to invite you to contact us for further discussions. Initial
>contacts can be made to this email address:
>
>imgcif@instrumentmiddleware.org
>
>Regards,
>
>Rick McMullen
>John C. Huffman
>Randall Bramley
>Kenneth Chiu
>Kia Huffman
>
>Indiana University
>Bloomington, IN
>USA
>
>[1] Instrument Middleware http://www.instrumentmiddleware.org
>[2] NSF Middleware Initiative http://www.nsf-middleware.org/

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