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The X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) data files that are produced by Bruker hand
held XRF spectrometers are saved as .pdz files. Unfortunately these
files are formatted as binary code.
Over the last decades my lab, the Rijkserfgoedlaboratorium in Amsterdam,
has used various types of Bruker hand held X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)
spectrometers. Measurement data is saved into .pdz files.
Unfortunately these files use a proprietary non standard binary file
format. Even worse, over time the .pdz file format has changed several
times. This situation restricts access to the data to a limited number
of researchers who can run the required Bruker software. Furthermore, it
is likely that we will loose the ability to read the data at some point
in the future.
In order to make optimal use of the XRF spectral data files in collaborative research projects now and to make sure that we can still read the data in the future we need to: 1) (at least partly) understand the file format, and 2) develop open software tools available to all researchers for reading and converting these data files.
To support open heritage science read_pdz package is currently being
developed under the MIT open source software license.
FAQs
Convert Bruker XRF spectral data .pdz files into an open file format
We found that read-pdz demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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