Self-documenting File Formats

• non-proprietary formats (hardware and software independent) alternatives to ASCII

• netCDF (network Common Data Format)

  • developed for atmospheric sciences by NCAR / NSF
  • documentation available from: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/index.html

• HDF (hierarchical data format)

  • developed for NASA / supercomputing applications by NCSA
  • documentation available from: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

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