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==Education, information and outreach==
 
===What is lacking & what is feasible===
 
* An overview, a single resource providing a 'scattering 101' where users can go from no knowledge to some degree of competency
 
* Expectation handling, going from institution instruments, i.e. AFM, SEM, TEM, where results are visual and easily forthcoming to SAS
 
* Sample preparation best practices
 
* What's not possible!
 
 
===Creating new instructional material===
 
* No-one reads manuals!
 
* Videos (YouTube, etc.) are currently the favoured visual mechanism
 
* Simple phone/web apps that demonstrate/simulate simple x-ray patterns from simple scenarios, i.e. * [https://sites.google.com/site/squireslab/teaching-resources/fiber-diffraction-and-gi-saxs Miller planes and diffraction from cubic symmetry]
 
* Podcasts? Presence at student / general conferences
 
 
===Aggregating existing instructional materials===
 
* There's a whole treasure trove of resources from a variety of backgrounds/specialisations, i.e. * gisaxs.org or the NIST tutorials
* Perhaps on cansas.org we should aggregate these together
* Anticipating user requirements, perhaps a drill-down list would hone their literature/knowledge search, i.e.
  Is your sample solid / liquid: [liquid]
    Do you anticipate spheres or cylinders: [spheres]
      What kind of size range do you anticipate for your samples: [100 nm]
        Result: After acquiring data you should be looking into shape fitting using x, y, z piece of software using a sphere model, here's a list of resources to help: ...
 
 
===Generating scientific case studies===
 
* Pulling in previous point with drill-down list generate a number of common studies, i.e. 100 nm latex spheres, from 2D data to reduced data to result (almost, if not a complete, working example)
* Case studies incorporating multi-modal data analysis, using AFM/SEM/TEM results as inputs or constraints for fitting
 
 
===NXcanSAS dissemination===
 
* Users don't really care about the file format, as long as it works
* Make common software work with NXcanSAS
* If required, make software available to convert NXcanSAS to text
 
 
===Development and maintenance of sasportal===
 
* Should link to existing material
* New material, if not created elsewhere, should be hosted here
* Maintenance is difficult as people are reluctant to volunteer time...

Revision as of 00:11, 6 June 2017

Education, information and outreach

What is lacking & what is feasible

  • An overview, a single resource providing a 'scattering 101' where users can go from no knowledge to some degree of competency
  • Expectation handling, going from institution instruments, i.e. AFM, SEM, TEM, where results are visual and easily forthcoming to SAS
  • Sample preparation best practices
  • What's not possible!


Creating new instructional material

  • No-one reads manuals!
  • Videos (YouTube, etc.) are currently the favoured visual mechanism
  • Podcasts? Presence at student / general conferences


Aggregating existing instructional materials

  • There's a whole treasure trove of resources from a variety of backgrounds/specialisations, i.e. * gisaxs.org or the NIST tutorials
  • Perhaps on cansas.org we should aggregate these together
  • Anticipating user requirements, perhaps a drill-down list would hone their literature/knowledge search, i.e.
 Is your sample solid / liquid: [liquid]
   Do you anticipate spheres or cylinders: [spheres]
     What kind of size range do you anticipate for your samples: [100 nm]
       Result: After acquiring data you should be looking into shape fitting using x, y, z piece of software using a sphere model, here's a list of resources to help: ...


Generating scientific case studies

  • Pulling in previous point with drill-down list generate a number of common studies, i.e. 100 nm latex spheres, from 2D data to reduced data to result (almost, if not a complete, working example)
  • Case studies incorporating multi-modal data analysis, using AFM/SEM/TEM results as inputs or constraints for fitting


NXcanSAS dissemination

  • Users don't really care about the file format, as long as it works
  • Make common software work with NXcanSAS
  • If required, make software available to convert NXcanSAS to text


Development and maintenance of sasportal

  • Should link to existing material
  • New material, if not created elsewhere, should be hosted here
  • Maintenance is difficult as people are reluctant to volunteer time...