Allotrope Data Format
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.
Allotrope Simple Model
Allotrope Simple Model (ASM) was recently introduced and is differentiated from ADF in terms of licensing and simplicity. ASM uses JSON and is licensed under a creative commons mode. See more on their GitLab.
