[netcdfgroup] Introducing Scientific DataSet Library and Tools

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Introducing Scientific DataSet Library and Tools
• From: s_berezin <s_berezin@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:10:42 +0400

Hello!
 
I'd like to introduce Scientific DataSet Library and Tools project at
http://sds.codeplex.com aimed at manipulation and visualization of
multidimensional data sets.

Scientific DataSet (or SDS in short) is a .NET class library for
manipulating scientific data  and their metadata. SDS provides unified API
for convenient access to various data storages. Three types of storages are
supported by first release: NetCDF files, CSV text files and volatile
in-memory datasets. SDS uses native NetCDF library built from version 4.0.1
both for 32 and 64-bit Windows platforms. New storage types can be added to
SDS infractructure as plugins. Support for accessing TIFF image files from
SDS as 2D arrays will be available soon as a separate CodePlex project.

Three applications are built on top of SDS. 
- sds command line utility. It allows users to examine data set schema,
copy data sets, modify their metadata.
- DataSetViewer application for visualization of data sets. DataSetViewer
is both a standalone application and Windows Presentation Foundatin Control
that can be built into your applications. DataSetViewer has support for
interactive slicing of multidimensional data along any dimension.
- DataSetEditor add-in for Microsoft Office Excel. DataSetEditor provides
ability to view and modify the contents of any data set as Excel
worksheets.

You can read the Getting Started document at
http://sds.codeplex.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?DownloadId=127282
for a more detailed introduction of what is Scientific DataSet. Windows
Installation package for SDS binaries along with DataSet Viewer and DataSet
Editor is available also. You can also build core class libraries and sds
utility under Mono.

SDS project is in beta phase and keeps evolving. Any opinions, questions,
comments and suggestions are welcome! You can always contact me at:
s_berezin@xxxxxxxxx

Thanks for your time,
Sergey Berezin,
Moscow State University.