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The Advanced Scientific Data Format (ASDF) is a next-generation interchange
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format for scientific data. This package contains the Python implementation of
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the ASDF Standard.
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The ASDF format has the following features:
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- A hierarchical, human-readable metadata format (implemented using YAML)
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- Numerical arrays are stored as binary data blocks which can be memory mapped.
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Data blocks can optionally be compressed.
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- The structure of the data can be automatically validated using schemas
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(implemented using JSON Schema)
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- Native Python data types (numerical types, strings, dicts, lists) are
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serialized automatically
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- ASDF can be extended to serialize custom data types
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