Allotrope Data Format

File Format
Name	Allotrope Data Format
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Scientific Data formats Allotrope Data Format
Extension(s)	.adf
Wikidata ID	Q131232034
Maintained By	Allotrope Foundation

The Allotrope Data Format (ADF) is a HDF5 based format for storing data from analytical instruments. The data is annotated with an RDF based triple store following the W3C RDF Data Cube vocabulary. A manifest defines the instrument type. The Allotrope Foundation Ontology (AFO) defines the data description. Data to be plotted is stored in multidimensional arrays. A scale (or dimension) denotes the X axis and measures the Y axis. If an explicit scale is missing, it might be defined by a range of values in the data description instead. Original data in vendor-specific formats may be included in the data package.

Format information

• The Allotrope Framework
• Allotrope Data Format
• ADF Data Cube to HDF5 Mapping Ontology v1.5.3 RF