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------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:30:58 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: Jim Kling <address@hidden> Subject: Re: 980518: article for Analtyical Chemistry >To: address@hidden >From: Jim Kling <address@hidden> >Subject: article for Analytical Chemistry >Organization: . >Keywords: 199805182052.OAA04900 Hi Jim, > I'm doing a brief article for Analytical Chemistry -- basically an > update on the progress of the ANDI standards being developed through > ASTM. I'd like to speak with someone regarding netCDF and how it relates > to the work to the ANDI standards... is it a competitor? Or will it be > incorporated into the standards? I can answer questions about netCDF, as one of the developers. NetCDF is merely a data model, interface, and format for array-oriented scientific data. It grew out of needs for a general data model and machine-independent format for atmospheric science data, but has been used in some other fields as well. There was a flurry of activity in using netCDF for data exchange formats for chromatography and mass spectrometry in 1992 and 1994, but I haven't heard much about this effort lately. The only URL I had for information about this effort, <http://www.ultranet.com/~lasf/andi.html>, seems to not work anymore. I did hear from Bob Macdonald (developer of JCAMP-DX, a competing format) in February that David Stranz has written a special MS-API layer on top of netCDF for the ASMS. It has over a hundred data items, each with its own name and a corresponding variable name. Both are compiled into the MS-API. This is an advantage (??) over the netCDF API which is independent of the data names!! > I'd also like to post a message to the netCDF mailing list, to get > opinions about the ANDI standards, whether they're going in the right > direction with them, etc. That sounds fine, although many of the subscribers to the netcdfgroup mailing list may not know anything about the ANDI standards, since most of them are associated with atmospheric sciences, oceanography, and other geosciences. You might have better luck posting to a mailing list or news group with a higher concentration of analytical chemists or people who develop instrumentation systems for analytical chemistry ... > My deadline for this article is this coming Friday, so if you feel it > appropriate, please let me know how best to proceed posting a message. You can post a message by simply sending it to the address "address@hidden", but you should first subscribe to the mailing list, since we only allow members to post as a way to try to fight spam. You can subscribe temporarily to the netcdfgroup mailing list from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/mailing-lists.html > Thanks, You're welcome! > Jim Kling > Science and Technology Writer > Bellingham, Wash > http://nasw.org/users/jkling _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ------- End of Forwarded Message