The highlight of the data area working groups meetings at the Open Grid Forum at Imperial recently was the Data Format Description Language . The idea is that if you have a formatted or structured input from a sensor, or a scientific event, and it's not already in one of the formatted, er, formats like (say) OpeNDAP or HDF5, you can use DFDL to describe it and then build a parser which, er, parses records of the format. For example, one use is to validate records before ingesting them into an archive or big data processing facility.
Led by Steve Hanson from IBM, we had an interactive tutorial building a DFDL description for a sensor: the interactive tool looks and feels a bit like Eclipse but is called Integration Toolkit:
And for those eager for more, the appearance of DFDL v1.0 is imminent.
Led by Steve Hanson from IBM, we had an interactive tutorial building a DFDL description for a sensor: the interactive tool looks and feels a bit like Eclipse but is called Integration Toolkit:
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