Hi! I think that some of you will be interested in my latest XAS software project, which I am calling Demeter. Demeter is an object-oriented programming interface to Ifeffit written in Perl. It is intended to encompass most of the current functionality of Athena and Artemis while at the same time being more generalized, lower-level, and much more robust. In short, Demeter is not a software product. Rather, it is the thing that software products can be made from. Demeter is targeted at a wide variety of XAS data analysis chores, such as * GUI's like Athena and Artemis. In fact, I intend to rewrite Artemis using Demeter once I have incorporated enough functionality into Demeter. * A parser for feffit.inp files allowing you to translate your old analysis using feffit into ifeffit scripts and Artemis projects. * The analytic component of a high-throughput system such as those presented at the XAFS13 conference by the groups of Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke and Sven Schroeder. * The backend to specialized XAS software, like Shelly Kelly's mkfit program (http://www.mesg.anl.gov/exafs.html), or for ideosyncratic analysis like that described in Physical Review B, 73, p. 184121 (2006) There is still A LOT to do, but even at this early stage Demeter is very useful. In fact, Demeter can already be used for real data processing and analysis. Demeter is available on an anonymous Subversion server, so anyone with an SVN client can check out a copy of Demeter at any time. Information about Demeter and the Subversion server is at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/demeter.html You can browse the Demeter source code with your web browser at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/demeter/ If this seems interesting to you, take a look at some of the short example programs demonstrating Demeter's capabilities and economy of language: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/demeter/examples B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advanced Photon Source, Building 433, Room B007 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/