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	Graphics and Data Analysis - Formats
		The National Space Science Data Center's (NSSDC) Common Data Format (CDF) is a self-describing data abstraction for the storage and manipulation of multidimensional data in a discipline-independent fashion.
		The irony of the term "FORMAT" is that the actual data format which CDF utilizes is completely tr ansparent to the user and accessible through a consistent set of interface (known as the "CDF Inter face") routines.
		The eXtensible Data Model and Format (XDMF) is an active, common data hub used to pass values and metadata in a standard fashion between application modules.
	stommel.tamu.edu /~baum/graphics-formats.html (3023 words)

	What is format? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When you format a disk, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information.
		Data in a file is stored in a format that is established by whatever application created the file (i.e., organized the data) and typically needs to be read by the same or similar program that can interpret the format and present the data to the user on the computer screen.
		CDF is a scientific data management package, from the National Space Science Data Center, which allows programmers and application developers to manage and manipulate scalar, vector, and multi-dimensional data arrays.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/f/format.html (742 words)

	About CDF
		The Common Data Format (CDF) is a self-describing data abstraction for the storage and manipulation of multidimensional data in a platform- and discipline-independent fashion.
		CDF is a scientific data management package (known as the "CDF Library") which allows programmers and application developers to manage and manipulate scalar, vector, and multi-dimensional data arrays.
		The irony of the term "FORMAT" is that the actual data format which CDF utilizes is completely transparent to the user and accessible through a consistent set of interface (known as the "CDF Interface") routines.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /about/about_cdf.html (232 words)

	Datapan.com - NetCDF
		The format was based on conceptual model of the NASA CDF but is not compatible with it.
		The data is kept in a "self-describing" format.
		Hierarchical Data Format, commonly abbreviated HDF or HDF4, is a library and multi-object file format for the transfer of graphical and numerical data.
	www.datapan.com /netcdf.html (323 words)

	format - EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet - News, trends and advice for network managers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When you format a disk, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information.
		Data in a file is stored in a format that is established by whatever application created the file (i.e., organized the data) and typically needs to be read by the same or similar program that can interpret the format and present the data to the user on the computer screen.
		CDF is a scientific data management package, from the National Space Science Data Center, which allows programmers and application developers to manage and manipulate scalar, vector, and multi-dimensional data arrays.
	networking.webopedia.com /TERM/F/format.html (530 words)

	CDF, Common Data Format (multidimensional datasets)
		CDF files created on any given platform can be transported to any other platform onto which CDF is ported and used with any CDF tools or layered applications.
		CDF V3.0 was released on February 10, 2005.
		The CDF 3.0 library will read a file that was created with CDF 2.5, 2.6, or 2.7 library, and save the file in the version that was originally created under (not 3.0).
	www.digitalpreservation.gov /formats/fdd/fdd000226.shtml (552 words)

	A Function-Based Data Model for Visualization
		These requirements demand the utilization of a generalized data model as a mechanism to classify and access data as well as efficiently map data to operations, which provide a self-describing representation of the physical storage structure (e.g., format), structural representation of the data (e.g., data base schema), and a higher-level logical structure (e.g., operations).
		Common Data Format (CDF), developed at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center initially in the mid-1980s, was one of the first implementations of a scientific data model [NSSDC, 1996].
		Both CDF and netCDF are supported by a large collection of utilities and applications, ports to a wide variety of platforms and usage in a diversity of disciplines.
	www.research.ibm.com /people/l/lloydt/dm/function/dm_fn.htm (4765 words)

	Scientific Data Format Information FAQ
		CDF (Common Data Format) is a library and toolkit for storing, manipulating, and accessing multi-dimensional data sets.
		HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a self-defining file format for transfer of various types of data between different machines.
		SAIF (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format) is a Canadian standard for the exchange of geographic data.
	www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/traffic/scidataformats/faq.html (2634 words)

	Common Data Format (CDF) FAQ
		HDF is a Hierarchal Data Format developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
		CDF maintains an internal directory of pointers for all the variables in a CDF file and does not require all the data elements for a given variable to be contiguous.
		CDF's "variable" is a generic name or an object that represents data where data can be 0-dimensional (scalar data) or multi-dimensional (up to 10-dimension), and it does not have any scientific context associated it.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /cdf/html/FAQ.html (5919 words)

	NetCDF FAQ
		When the netCDF format was created in 1988, 4-byte fields were reserved for file offsets, specifying where the data for each variable started relative to the beginning of the file or the start of a record boundary.
		CDF was developed at the NASA Space Science Data Center at Goddard, and is freely available.
		There is no compatibility between data in CDF and netCDF form, and as yet no translation software exists to convert data in one form to data in the other form.
	www.unidata.ucar.edu /packages/netcdf/faq.html (6409 words)

	Description of DE EICS Summary Data Format (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SDF files have been cast in NASA's Common Data Format (CDF, version 2.5) with the Dictionary Keywords (as they were defined in September, 1995) adopted by the ISTP project to facilitate development of automated plotting software.
		The Three data quality flags (N, C, and A) described in the documentation accompanying the full mass, energy, angle resolution EICS SATF format.
		Fortran and C language interfaces to the CDF format are also available from NASA.
	lasp.colorado.edu /timas/DE/Summary_Data_Format.html (426 words)

	The SEGY format and the SU data format
		In the early 1980's, the most common data storage format was SEG-Y. This is the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y format which is described in the SEG's publication Digital Tape Standards.
		The SU data format is based on the trace portion of the SEGY format.
		The primary difference between the SEGY traces and SU traces is that the data portion of the SU format are floats, written in the native binary float format of the machine you are running SU on.
	www.cwp.mines.edu /sututor/node22.html (289 words)

	ADO.NET disconnected data - The Code Project - C# Database
		The ADO.NET library have a neat disconnected data, this feature is quite handy when you want to have mobile users with a laptop or PDA be able to use a application while on the road.
		The added benedit is that one could in theory persist common data to a local disk, for mobile users.
		I chose for a common data format, which is well supported in Dotnet and the CF: disconnected Dataset.
	www.codeproject.com /useritems/ADONET_disconnected_data.asp (801 words)

	Scientific Data Format Information FAQ
		Format: 4) HDF HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a self-defining file format for transfer of various types of data between different machines.
		Format: 9) SAIF SAIF (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format) is a Canadian standard for the exchange of geographic data.
		Format: 14) JCAMP JCAMP is a draft standard for spectra data (IR and NMR) and chemical stuff which is related to netCDF.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/sci-data-formats (2565 words)

	MuSR99 Roundtable on data formats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The NeXus format uses the hierarchical data format (HDF) which is portable, binary, extensible and self-describing, the NeXus format defines the structure and contents of these HDF files in order to facilitate the visualization and analysis of neutron and X-ray data.
		Data archiving is a serious problem, since PSI will soon upgrade the system to one which will probably be unable to archive the current data format.
		However, a data format is merely a data format and need not be slavishly held to, since conversion programs are not that hard to write.
	musr.physics.ubc.ca /fmts/web99_share (2709 words)

	pg_tcahelp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Data files representing test case data for a variety of uses such as power flow, reliability, economic dispatch, stability, etc., are welcome.
		Data from real systems is very desirable, but must come with the original owner's permission to post and freely distribute.
		If the data is not in one of these well-known formats, a description of the format in use is needed to make the data accessible to a wide variety of users.
	www.ee.washington.edu /research/pstca/pg_tcahelp.htm (372 words)

	REST Data Format Confusion : Paul James
		They have their own way of representing common data formats in XML, meaning you can pass values back and forth without having to write or decode any XML, the libraries do it all for you.
		Further more, REST doesn't stop you from using a standard XML data format if that's what's best for your application, although it is most likely you'll end up with a meaningless response package that only makes sense in the context of your application and is less RESTful than it could be.
		REST Data Format Confusion - The lack of a standard data format is a feature not a bug.
	www.peej.co.uk /articles/rest-data-formats.html (821 words)

	DX Data File Formats
		The headers describe one or more DX objects, and the data section is a text or binary representation of the data.
		This DX file format is very extensive, and can represent almost any type of data because of this complexity, there are too many possible examples to present here.
		CDF Homepage at the National Space Science Data Center - This site contains all of the latest disrtibutions for the CDF Libraries, and other information relating to the CDF data format.
	www.cs.wpi.edu /Research/DataExplorer/tutorial/data.html (463 words)

	NUTS file format
		There are now 3 different NUTS file formats, referred to as Type 1 (original), Type 2 and Type 3.
		In Type 1 format, the first word of each slice is an integer equal to the size of that slice.
		The data are organized as Real, Imag, Real, Imag, etc. This is essentially the format proposed as JCAMP-DXB, which was not approved as a JCAMP standard.
	www.acornnmr.com /NutsHelp/cdff.html (628 words)

	SPDF - Space Phyics Guidelines for CDF use
		A CDF data set using ISTP/IACG guidelines, by definition forms a logically complete and self-sufficient whole (data and descriptions).
		The goal is to make the resulting CDF data set correctly and independently usable by the science community and accessible through the CDAWeb Display and Retrieval system.
		Defines data variables, support_data variables, and metadata variables including their dimensionality and what is needed for their correct display.
	spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov /sp_use_of_cdf.html (183 words)

	Chapter 13: Common Data Format
		The Network Common Data Format, netCDF, is a software library that allows users to create, access, and exchange scientific data in complex computing environments that are comprised of a wide variety of computer types networked together.
		XDR is a common data format that represents character, integer, and floating-point data independently of machine characteristics such as word length or byte order.
		Metadata ranges from text describing the data to data you use to process data objects, such as geographical information or calibration data.
	www.mmm.ucar.edu /computing/doc/guide/ch_13.html (330 words)

	Enterprise Benefits from the Common RAID Data Disk Format Specification
		With different RAID solutions in the data center, an enterprise must stock spare parts for them all or face a complicated data-restoration process when upgrading to RAID equipment whose data format is incompatible with that of the equipment being replaced.
		By defining a standard for how data is formatted across the disks in a RAID group, the DDF supports a basic level of interoperability to enable data-in-place migration between solutions from different vendors.
		With the explosive growth in data volume and increasing regulatory requirements for large-scale, long-term data archives, enterprises are seeking RAID solutions that support data-in-place migration from one solution to another.
	www.intel.com /technology/magazine/standards/RAID-spec-1105.htm (1627 words)

	IVE Data Format
		For example, if the data depends only on x and z the netCDF array should be declared to be four dimensional, and ny and nt should both be set to 1.
		Whenever a dimension is set to 1, the slider associated with the corresponding ordinate will not appear in the window/slicer widget (except in the case of a data set in multiple files).
		In a multiple file data set the data is split along a "file coordinate," which is one of the four coordinates x, y, z or t.
	www.atmos.washington.edu /ive/ive_help/data_format.html (1724 words)

	Scientific Data Formats Overview
		These data formats are now supported on all IDL platforms, except for HDF-EOS, which is not supported on Linux or Solaris x86.
		The Common Data Format is a file format that facilitates the storage and retrieval of multi-dimensional scientific data.
		The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a multi-object file format that facilitates the transfer of various types of data between machines and operating systems.
	www.physics.nyu.edu /grierlab/idl_html_help/sdf-overview2.html (433 words)

	Scientific Data Browser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The SDB reads data in it's native format by calling the appropriate file access library (HDF, etc) visualizing the data if necessary, and then formatting the results in HTML to present to the user via the Web.
		The SDB visualizes and displays subsampled images contained in a file and performs some rudimentary data analysis and visualization functions such as graphing tabular data and viewing images with a variety of palettes.
		Science teams can download data files from a large data provider, augment this "mini-archive" with their own datasets, and make the whole heterogeneous data collection accessible via the Web.
	hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu /sdb/sdb.html (499 words)

	Smart Computing Dictionary Entry - Common Data Format (CDF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A file format used for storing data sets, especially data sets representing the results of scientific experiments.
		CDF files, developed by NASA, can be read and edited on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac-intosh, and Unix.
		The format is designed with platform independence in mind, which means the files can be used with a variety of operating systems.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?searchtype=2&DicID=728&RefType=Dictionary&guid=8CF5E5CB35CB42E1857F6F42970E2A2C (89 words)

	GSRC T2 Fabrics Bookshelf: New Data Formats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The new data formats are going to fill gaps where no public data formats existed before and also improve on existing, but deficient formats.
		The format for glue files, and a discussion of platform-[in]dependence are given to encourage everyone to use the same.aux file format.
		Pollution of common namespace (preventing several different.pin formats and preventing the use of the same declarators in different formats with confusing syntax/semantics).
	vlsicad.eecs.umich.edu /BK/formats (1553 words)

	SoftNeSS'94 Data Format Report
		It is available on all operating systems in common use, is supported by a large number of visualization applications, and has a number of utilities to facilitate its implementation.
		The data organization must be sufficiently defined so that both the data files and the programs written at different locations will agree on the packaging of like information.
		These data files could then be converted to the new standard format as required (e.g., for a user to take the data away to be analyzed elsewhere, or for a local person to convert the data into a format which can be read by a "universal" analysis or visualization package).
	www.neutron.anl.gov /SoftNeSS/SoftNeSS_report_1.html (1792 words)

	Cover Pages: Incident Object Description and Exchange Format (IODEF)
		Furthermore, the use of the IODEF as the explicit storage or archive format is not recommended due to the space inefficiency of XML.
		The data model is described in Section 3, and the implementation considerations are covered in Sections 4 through 6, and 9.
		Such event data is commonly used by a CSIRT as the basis for an incident report or investigation which is represented by the IODEF.
	xml.coverpages.org /iodef.html (1295 words)

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