ENSDF for the 21^st Century

The Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF) has served the nuclear science and applications communities for decades as the authoritative source for evaluated nuclear structure data. However, as both science and technology have advanced, the rigid and increasingly archaic format of ENSDF has made it difficult to parse for both humans and computers. For the last three years, ENSDF has been the focus of a major effort to convert it into a modern database. With the conclusion of that project, ENSDF has been transformed from a collection of FORTRAN punch card-like text files into a modern JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. This talk will present the new ENSDF database and discuss opportunities which the format is expected to enable, including potential future improvements to the database.