README

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Data Access Library (DAL) - README
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The DAL provides access to radio astronomy data produced by the LOFAR
telescope, operated by ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy).
DAL is a reference implementation to access all HDF5 data fields with long-term
compatibility in mind. DAL is written in C++ and offers Python bindings for all
its functionality. It also comes with API documentation, a user manual, small
example programs + data, and a test suite.

Source code is available at https://github.com/nextgen-astrodata/DAL

Documentation is available at http://nextgen-astrodata.github.io/DAL

Documents that specify supported data formats are available at
http://lus.lofar.org/wiki/doku.php?id=documents:lofar_data_products


DAL Project Contents
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INSTALL			How to retrieve and build DAL, list of dependencies.
COPYING.LESSER		The license text.
Contributing		How to contact us and/or submit contributions.
KnownIssues		Known issues in this release.
ChangeLog		Added features and fixed bugs per release.
ReleaseSteps            Steps for the developers to make a release.
README			This file.

CMakeLists.txt		Build configuration script.
cmake/			Build configuration helper scripts.
dal/			DAL sources.
doc/			DAL documentation sources.
examples/		Small example programs.
package/		Package creation script(s).
test/			Test programs, in addition to example and utility tests.