3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
[2E12] The Challenge of the Effective Implementation of FAIR Principles for the Experimental Nuclear Reaction Database: EXFOR
Keywords:Nuclear Reaction, EXFOR
The Experimental Nuclear Reaction Database (EXFOR) database is composed of the numerical data compiled by the international collaboration within the Nuclear Reaction Data Centre (NRDC).
Even though it is digitalized and has been used everywhere, the EXFOR format is still under the restrictions of the legacy format of a punch card for coding FORTRAN. It prevents users from using EXFOR data directly by plotting packages such as matplotlib, a Python package used for data plotting and visualisation.
Over the past decades, the Open Science known as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and digital transformation movements have gained considerable traction in many scientific fields. As a new example from the Nuclear Data Section of IAEA, we are developing the EXFOR parser to convert EXFOR to JSON and provide data via REST APIs. In this presentation, we will give an overview and some examples of our developments.
Even though it is digitalized and has been used everywhere, the EXFOR format is still under the restrictions of the legacy format of a punch card for coding FORTRAN. It prevents users from using EXFOR data directly by plotting packages such as matplotlib, a Python package used for data plotting and visualisation.
Over the past decades, the Open Science known as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and digital transformation movements have gained considerable traction in many scientific fields. As a new example from the Nuclear Data Section of IAEA, we are developing the EXFOR parser to convert EXFOR to JSON and provide data via REST APIs. In this presentation, we will give an overview and some examples of our developments.