Scientific Data formats
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General
- cdf (Common Data Format)
- hdf (Hierarchical Data Format, from NASA)
- NetCDF (Network Common Data Format)
- XDF (eXtensible Data Format)
- XSIL (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)
Astronomical and Space
Chemical
Ecological
- Darwin Core (Standard for sharing information about biological diversity)
- EML (Ecological Metadata Language)
Geographic and Geospatial
See also Geospatial
- DEM (Digital Elevation Model)
- DOQ (Digital Orthophotos)
- e00 (ESRI ArcInfo Interchange File)
- FGDC (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata??)
- GeoTIFF (Geospatial extensions to TIFF)
- GML (Geography Markup Language)
- HDFEOS, HD2, HD4 (Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System)
- KML (KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language), Version 2.2)
- NDF (National Landsat Archive Production System (NLAPS) Data Format)
- SAIF (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Canadian)
- SDTS (Spatial Data Transfer Standard)
- shp and shx (ESRI Shaepfile must have components; other optional components as well, see entry)
- SID (MrSID- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database)
- TAB (MapInfo dataset format, must have component)
Mathematical
Medical Imaging
Oceanographic and Atmospheric
- GRIB (Grid in Binary)
- BUFR (Binary Universal Format Representation)
- IOAPI (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)
Physics
- NeXuS (Common data format for neutron, x-ray and muon science)
- QCDml (Lattice QCD gauge configuration markup language)
