Common Data Format (CDF) [Download latest version]

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• Self-describing data format for the storage of scalar and multidimensional data in a platform- and discipline-independent way
• Scientific data management package (CDF Library) allows application developers to manage these data arrays
• Transparent access to data and metadata through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Built-in support for data compression (RLE, gZIP, Huffman) and automatic data uncompression
• Large file support (> 2GBytes)
• CDF library includes a suite of tools that allow users to manipulate CDF files

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Announcements

• 03/12/2012: CDF Version V3.4.0 is released. This version explicitly supports time with leap seconds. See our requirements analysis and development approach for more details.
• 09/01/2011: CDFsupport email address has changed to gsfc-cdf-support@lists.nasa.gov
• CDF supports C# programming language APIs for C#-CDF on Windows.
• MATLAB: Latest patch based on the CDF V3.4.0 version CDF Patch
• IDL: Latest patch based on the CDF V3.4.0 version CDF Patch
• CDF's Java Network Launching Protocol latest development

Introductory Information about CDF

• FAQ
• Convert non-CDF files to/from CDFs
• CDF XML Markup Language (CDFML)
• Example CDF Applications

Software and Documentation

Download CDF Software

• Documentation
• CDF copyright
• Make CDF from a text or binary file
• Public Domain and Commercial Software
• User Supplied Software
• Acknowledgements

Data Format Translation Web Service (DTWS)

• Data Format Translation
• DTWS information

Space Physics Users of CDF

• ISTP / IACG CDF Guidelines
• Skeleton Editor
• CDAWeb Heliophysics Data
• Heliophysics Data Environment

User Support and Help Desk

• CDF Mailing List
  

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