C.1 Acknowledgements

My thanks are due to a number of people who have contributed help to me in writing this document and the STIL software, including:

• Alasdair Allan (Starlink, Exeter)
• Malcolm Currie (Starlink, RAL)
• Clive Davenhall (AstroGrid, RoE)
• Pierre Didelon (CEA)
• Peter Draper (Starlink, Durham)
• David Giaretta (Starlink, RAL)
• Paul Harrison (ESO)
• Jonathan Irwin (IoA)
• Nickolai Kouropatkine (Fermilab)
• Clive Page (AstroGrid, Leicester)
• Chris Stoughton (Fermilab)

STIL is written in Java and contains code from the following non-Starlink libraries:

• Ant's Bzip2 compression/decompression code
• JCDF is used for reading CDF files
• JARROW is used for reading Feather files
• Snakeyaml is used for YAML parsing in the ECSV input handler
• JSON-java is used for JSON I/O in Feather and ECSV handlers