Consultancy Meeting on Information Exchange on Developments and Operations of Nuclear Data Dissemination Services

Contribution List

1. TALYSworld and connection to other GUI's

Arjan KONING (IAEA)

15/01/2024, 10:15

A short demonstration of TALYSworld was given, see https://nds.iaea.org/relnsd/talys/talys.html.
This GUI is based on a concept sometimes called Computationa Steering, analogous to the Medical Isotope Browser at https://www-nds.iaea.org/relnsd/isotopia/isotopia.html
The idea is to change model parameters of TALYS on a webpage, and after clicking 'Run' TALYS will run in the background and...

2. Data dissemination: addressing users’ feedback and needs for the livechart

Marco Verpelli (IAEA)

15/01/2024, 11:00

Users’ feedback has been the major driver for the development of dissemination tools at the IAEA Nuclear Data Section.

Some examples from the past, and future perspectives

3. 1. A tour of the BNL web system / 2. NSR

Benjamin Shu (BNL)

15/01/2024, 13:30

1. A tour of the BNL web system
2. NSR

The National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has been gradually updating its web development process. It now uses software tools for each step – Gradle for compiling code, Git/GitLab for tracking changes, and Docker for deploying updates. The first presentation attached describes the general workflow for updating...

4. 1. Modernisation of the NDS website / 2. New and modernised databases (Stopping Powers and IDB)

Ludmila MARIAN

15/01/2024, 14:30

1. Modernisation of the NDS website
2. New and modernised databases (Stopping Powers and IDB)

This contribution presents an approach towards creating a repository for nuclear data collections and services that implements the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles. The proposed platform provides an integrated environment for data collections, resources, and...

5. IAEA Nuclear Reaction Dataexplorer Developments

Shin OKUMURA (IAEA)

15/01/2024, 15:30

An efficient and easy data access to the nuclear reaction data are essential to enhance the understanding and explanation of the fundamentals of theory and experiments of nulear reaction physics. The Experimental Nuclear Reaction Database (EXFOR) has a potential for utilization of modern computational analysis techniques to find hidden patterns by using machine learning (ML) applications,...

6. 1. What’s in old Sigma / 2. The ENDF project / 3. GNDS

David Brown (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16/01/2024, 09:30

1. What’s in old Sigma

Sigma is a web app designed and hosted by the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) for the visualization of ENDF reaction data. Sigma allows the user to browse the contents of ENDF files in a mostly easy to use manner and, at one point, allowed the comparisons of ENDF data with experimental data from EXFOR. Currently the site is not well maintained at the NNDC for a...

7. endf-parserpy: A Python package for working with ENDF-6 files

Georg SCHNABEL (IAEA)

16/01/2024, 10:30

The ENDF-6 file format is adopted by the major nuclear data libraries for storing and disseminating evaluated nuclear data. However, publicly available tools supporting scientists in the translation of their data into the ENDF-6 format are scarce, posing an obstacle to newcomers to the nuclear data field. This presentation elaborates on the design and functionality of the recently developed...

8. YANDF Format in TALYS

Arjan KONING (IAEA)

16/01/2024, 11:30

A simple but sufficient data format YANDL (yet Another Nuclear Data Format) was introduced. TALYS-2.0 now produces all its output in YANDF format. This is a YAML-esque format aiming to provide complete metadata in each output file of TALYS. Moreover, the same format is used for EXFOR (in the incarnation of EXFORtables) and ENDF (as resulting from ENDFtables), allowing for consistent automated...

10. The NEA efforts to modernize JEFF and EXFOR

Daniela Foligno (OECD/NEA)

16/01/2024, 13:30

The main NEA Nuclear Data Projects, specifically JEFF and EXFOR, have undergone modernization efforts to align with FAIR principles. In the case of JEFF, the transition to using GitLab and SharePoint has made data more accessible to the community, allowing for immediate testing and feedback through automatic processing. The JEFF-Lab served as a training ground for users to adapt to the new...

9. EXFOR - An early overview and opinionated assessment

Julia Sprenger (OECD/NEA)

16/01/2024, 14:15

Exfor is a library central to the nuclear sciences. In this presentation I give an overview on current practices for library maintenance, distribution and community involvement. I provide proposals to improve aspects of each of those three areas with respect to modern tools and workflows available. In the following discussion I hope to collect feedback on the presented proposals and gather...

11. 1. DOI Pages & Status / 2. Nudat 3

Donnie Mason

16/01/2024, 15:20

1- DOI Pages & Status

The National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory has registered DOIs for ENSDF, XUNDL, and NSR. Each database has an associated persistent landing page which contains relevant metadata describing the deposit summary, dataset details, and publication details along with downloadable archives. This effort was motivated by the Department of Energy...

12. 3. Open Science efforts update: DOIs and Licenses

Ludmila MARIAN

16/01/2024, 16:20

The presentation will give a status update on the NDS efforts to mint DOIs for resources available on the NDS website and on the efforts to use open licenses (CC-BY-4.0 in case of data libraries and MIT in case of software) for the open resources available on the NDS website.

13. Discussions

17/01/2024, 10:00

14. Discussions

17/01/2024, 13:30

15. Report and summary

18/01/2024, 13:30