On the communication of scientific data: The Full-Metadata Format

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 651-662

  Riede, Moritz ^a   Schueppel, Rico ^a   Sylvester Hvid, Kristian O ^b   Kühne, Martin ^c   Röttger, Michael C ^c   Zimmermann, Klaus ^c   Liehr, Andreas W ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data format; Physical quantities; Text files; Units

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATED GENERATION; DATA FORMAT; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SELF DOCUMENTATION; TEXT FILE; TEXT-BASED DATA; UNITS;

METADATA;

EID: 73549112181     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.11.014     Document Type: Article

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