SteveGrehl/xlum-python

Python importer for https://github.com/R-Lum/xlum_specification

xlum-python

Python importer for the XLUM data exchange and archive format

System requirements

• lxml https://pypi.org/project/lxml/
• pandas https://pandas.pydata.org/
• urllib3 https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• openpyxl https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• Access to GitHub for XSD schema validation

Installation

$ pip install xlum

Usage

import xlum

meta_obj = xlum.from_xlum(file_name="<Path to Xlum>")

Citing

@Article{gchron-2022-27,
AUTHOR = {Kreutzer, S. and Grehl, S. and H\"ohne, M. and Simmank, O. and Dornich, K. and Adamiec, G. and Burow, C. and Roberts, H. and Duller, G.},
TITLE = {XLUM: an open data format for exchange and long-term data preservation of luminescence data},
JOURNAL = {Geochronology Discussions},
VOLUME = {2022},
YEAR = {2022},
PAGES = {1--22},
URL = {https://gchron.copernicus.org/preprints/gchron-2022-27/},
DOI = {10.5194/gchron-2022-27}
}

Funding

The development of the XLUM-format as format basis for reference data was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844457 CREDit).