Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: LoopProjectFile
Version: 0.1.4
Summary: Open source structural geology data storage for Loop Projects
Author-email: Roy Thomson <roy.thomson@monash.edu>
License: MIT
Project-URL: Documentation, https://Loop3d.org/LoopProjectFile/
Project-URL: Bug Tracker, https://github.com/loop3d/LoopProjectFile/issues
Project-URL: Source Code, https://github.com/loop3d/LoopProjectFile
Keywords: earth sciences,data storage,structural geology,geology,loop3d
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
Requires-Python: >=3.8
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE
Requires-Dist: numpy
Requires-Dist: pandas
Requires-Dist: netCDF4

# Loop Project File Documentation {#mainpage}

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![Loop Project](loop_inv.png "Loop Project")
[Loop Project Website](https://loop3d.org)

# What is Loop?
The Loop platform is an open source 3D probabilistic geological and geophysical modelling platform, initiated by Geoscience Australia and the OneGeology consortium. The project is funded by Australian territory, State and Federal Geological Surveys, the Australian Research Council and the MinEx Collaborative Research Centre.

# What is a Loop Project File?
A Loop Project File encapsulates all the data and models used or created in a Loop workflow.  This includes the ability to create meta-data which provides provenance of the data and the methodology and history of how models are used and produced.  The Loop Project File is based on netCDF and has APIs for C/C++ and Python (with the intention of creating a Fortran API in the future).
- [Loop Project File - C/C++](https://github.com/Loop3D/LoopProjectFile-cpp)
- [Loop Project File - Python](https://github.com/Loop3D/LoopProjectFile)

# Why use a project file?
There are several benefits to using a single project file.  These include encapsulating the information in a single place, server storage and retrieval enabling batching of model creation over multiple servers, easily shared workflows, and storage efficiency among many more.

# Why use netCDF?
netCDF enables multi-dimensional data structure storage in a highly compressed format as well as data attribution for meta-data all within a single data file.

# Licencing
The Loop Project File python repository is under the MIT license

