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XAFS Data Interchange: A single spectrum XAFS data file format

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Author(s)

Bruce D. Ravel, M. Newville

Abstract

We propose a standard data format for the interchange of XAFS data. The XAFS Data Interchange (XDI) standard is meant to encapsulate a single spectrum of XAFS along with relevant metadata. XDI is a text-based format with a simple syntax which clearly delineates metadata from the data table in a way that is easily interpreted both by a computer and by a human. The metadata header is inspired by the format of an electronic mail header, representing metadata names and values as an associative array. The data table is represented as columns of numbers. This format can be imported as is into most existing XAFS data analysis, spreadsheet, or data visualization programs. Along with a specification and a dictionary of metadata types, we provide an application-programming interface written in C and bindings for dynamic programming languages.
Citation
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume
712
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

XAFS, file format
Analytical chemistry, Optical physics and communications, Radiation and Spectroscopy

Citation

Ravel, B. and Newville, M. (2016), XAFS Data Interchange: A single spectrum XAFS data file format, Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accessed April 20, 2025)

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Created June 9, 2016, Updated February 19, 2017