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+<title>Data Access Library (DAL) Documentation Page</title>
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+<h1>Data Access Library (DAL) documentation</h1>
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+The DAL provides data access to radio astronomy data produced by the <a href="http://lofar.org/">LOFAR</a>
+telescope, operated by <a href="http://astron.nl/">ASTRON</a> (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy).<br> 
+DAL is a reference implementation to access all HDF5 data fields
+with long-term version 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, and a test suite.
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+Source code is available at <a href="https://github.com/nextgen-astrodata/DAL">https://github.com/nextgen-astrodata/DAL</a>
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+<h3>DAL documentation</h3>
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+<li><a href="user-manual/html/">User Manual</a> (generated with <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a>)</li>
+<li><a href="api-reference/html/">API Reference</a> (generated with <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/">Doxygen</a>)</li>
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