The CDMA project is aimed to provide to programmers a data access layer that is independent of the scientific datasets format. Using a plug-in mechanism, it allows transparently accessing data from the data analysis application side.

About the CDMA

• Introduction
• Genesis of the project
• Our motivations

News

Major happenings within the CDMA community

Available data formats plug-ins

• ANSTO NetCDF
• SOLEIL NeXus
• Raw NeXus

Dictionaries

Informations and available sets of scientific keywords: the dictionaries used by client applications

Tools

• The Data Browser

Documentation

• Getting started with CDMA
• CDMA concepts
• C++ implementation
• Java implementation
• Python documentation
• Data format engines
• Plug-ins

Roadmap

Here is the plan for next versions of the CDMA core library

| langage | version | when? | what? | Status | |:------------|:------------|:----------|:----------|:-----------| | Java | 3.2.0 | October, 2012 | Refreshing service, synonyms mechanism, source code repackaging | done | | C++ | 2.0 | November, 2012 | missing functionalities already availables in the Java version | in progress | | C++/Java/Python | 4.0 | December, 2012 | Python binding, API unification (Java/C++), coherent version numbers | planned | | C++/Java/Python | 5.0 | Q2/2013 | Writing capabilities | planned |