Hello ROOTers,
I would like to announce a new website which is designed
to help you find out what other root users have developed. The
site is called "Root Auxiliary" and is located at:
http://rootAux.lns.mit.edu/
Who has is using Root with real time Linux?
Has anybody developed a partial wave analysis
package with Root?
Are there interfaces to hardware?
Does anyone have a strip chart?
Spectrums? Particle ID? Cross Sections?
etc. .........
"Root Auxiliary" is a clearing house of information about the
many projects and the substantial array of software which the ROOT
Users Community has developed. It is motivated by the idea that when
you start a project it would always be useful to know what other people
have already done. Maybe the problem has already been solved elsewhere.
If not the exact same problem - perhaps something similar. Perhaps
there is the potential to collaborate? If only you knew what other
people are doing.
The RootAux website is designed to help. The way is works is
that people who have developed projects / software libraries / packages /
classes, can list those packages, with description and their URLs
on the RootAux website. People coming into the site can then either
browse the descriptions, or use the search engine to search for
something in particular.
An additional feature is that when a package is listed the
suppler of the information can also allow RootAux to "index" their
site. An index means that RootAux has looked at many of the files on
the supplier's site and build up an index of keywords. This index can
then be used by the search engine on RootAux to not only search
descriptions of packages, but also search the information suppliers
original site.
At present, only a very few projects are listed. A search of
RootAux this morning could not find the answers to yesterday's RootTalk
question, "who has a strip chart?" But if a project which had a strip
chart was listed on RootAux - the answer could have been found. Not
all the questions list at the top can presently be answered, but
some can.
The only way RootAux can supply information to the whole Root
Users Community is if the Community supplies information to it.
Please do not be the last one to register your site/project on RootAux.
If you want the world to know what you have done with Root
-> list it on RootAux.
If you want to see what other people have been doing
-> search RootAux.
http://rootAux.lns.mit.edu/
Tim Smith
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Timothy Paul Smith Research Scientist
MIT Bates Lab tim_smith@mit.edu
21 Manning Rd. tel: (617) 253-9207
Middleton, MA 01949 fax: (617) 253-9599
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