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Standards for Exchange of Plasma Collisional Data

Data exchange formats, database schemas, software tools for data querying and APIs

Details

This Working Group consists of developers, database managers and data providers and aims to promote a set of standards and possibly a common databse infrastructure for, initially, cross sections and rate coefficient data of reactions and plasma collisional processes.

A list of relevant databases is available on the AMD Unit's website.

Relevant services, including prototype software tools under active development are:

• The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centres (VAMDC) Consortium.
• PyValem: a Python library for parsing atomic and molecular species, states and reactions.
• PyQn: a Python package for parsing, validating, manipulating and transforming physical quantities and their units.
• django-valem: a collection of Django apps defining data models for parsing, validation, manipulation and interpretation of chemical reactions, formulas, and quantum states.
• django-pyref: a project defining a Django app, refs, to create references for scientific databases.

Research Groups and other collaborators

Atomic Spectroscopy Group		National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States of America
Bratislav MARINKOVIĆ		Laboratory for Atomic Collision Processes, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Carlo Maria ZWÖLF		Paris Observatory, France
Christian ENDRES		Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany
Christian HILL		IAEA
DIPTI		IAEA
Duck-Hee KWON		Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea
Felix DUENSING		University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marie-Lise DUBERNET		Paris Observatory, France
Nicolas MOREAU		Paris Observatory, France
Pierre GRATIER		Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France
Stephan SCHLEMMER		University of Cologne, Germany
Thomas MARQUART		Uppsala University, Sweden
Yuri RALCHENKO		National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States of America