Introduction

Overview

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Questions
  • Where to start?

  • Why using common data formats?

Objectives
  • Background on the rise of common data formats in our scientific disciplines

Before using “standard” data formats, each project often invented their own data formats, raw binary or even ASCII. These approaches had a number of problems:

Key Points

  • Data formats to exchange, archive and disseminate scientific results