Demeter

Figure 1 Statue of a goddess restored as Demeter, Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City

Demeter is a comprehensive system for processing and analyzing X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy data.

Demeter is

• currently at version 0.1.0, 0.2.0 is ongoing

• a set of perl modules and related files

• a programming tool but not an application -- it is the thing from which applications are built

• free software, freely available from an svn server

• under heavy development

• in use by its author for real data analysis problems

• a front end to Feff and Ifeffit

• the code base that will, some day, replace Athena and Artemis

• named for the Greek goddess of the harvest

The essential pages

• Installation instructions

• A cookbook of delicious data analysis recipes

• Programmer's documentation

• Browse the SVN repository

Other information

• A speculative time line of milestones for Demeter

• View of Demeter from 1000 feet, as of 1 Oct 2008

• An overview of Demeter's interface with Feff

• The first genuinely new Demeter-based application: A visual interface to a library of standard reference materials

• Which aspects of Artemis suck, which work well, and what I propose to do about it

Information from Wikimedia Commons about the image of Demeter