I'm at a workshop on data publication, and there's talk about trying to do an audit of scienfitic file formats by related communities.
Is anyone aware of any existing surveys that we might be able to build on?
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Sign up to join this communityI'm at a workshop on data publication, and there's talk about trying to do an audit of scienfitic file formats by related communities.
Is anyone aware of any existing surveys that we might be able to build on?
The BioSharing Standards Database may be of some use to you.
You're going to have a hard time with this, though, because of the scatteredness of the information and because quite a few instrument-science file formats are proprietary.