The Silx Toolkit

The European Synchrotron (ESRF) has identified data analysis and data management as a key priority and is going to commit ~45 years of additional full-time-equivalent man power to that purpose in the 2016-2022 period.

Among the expected deliverables, there is a set of tools to simplify development and maintenance of scientific applications. The silx toolkit (www.silx.org) tries to achieve that goal. After an introduction to the data analysis and management project, the silx toolkit will be presented in detail. Besides new applications, well-known ESRF applications like pyFAI and PyMca are expected to base their graphical user interfaces on this library in order to reduce and share maintenance efforts.