Hello! I am working with a team on a tool, Awkward Kaitai, that gives people tools to work with binary data once that data has been described with a custom language. If you're interested in more details the project is currently hosted at https://github.com/ManasviGoyal/kaitai_struct_awkward_runtime and is meant to integrate with a larger project, https://kaitai.io/.
I am writing because DFDL is a tool that solves a similar problem. We are currently writing a paper that provides examples of different custom-data problems in different domains and provides an overview of tools that help scientists work with such data and I wanted to reach out to the DFDL community to see if anyone would be interested in joining our paper as an author. I'd be delighted to have you contribute in any way you'd like as an author, and am particularly interested in having you: - Contribute a section about your tool - Show how your tool deals with a toy data file (I'm suggesting https://github.com/det-lab/dataReaderWriter/blob/master/kaitai/ksy/animal.ksy but would be happy to consider other options!) - Help identify any similar tools that we should include in our review - Help identify any use cases that we could include in our "Use Cases" section Thanks so much for your work in this area! Best, Amy Amy Roberts Assistant Professor of Physics amy.robe...@ucdenver.edu
