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Data Formats Overview

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All of the chapters in this part are about data formats. In this chapter we discuss issues involved in data formats and show what a standard scientific data format can do for the technical community. The emphasis here is on the way the data is stored on disk (disk file formats).

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Fortner, B. (1995). Data Formats Overview. In: The Data Handbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2538-6_13

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