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|released=2016<sup>Date of </sup><ref name="paper">Lion Krischer, James Smith, Wenjie Lei, Matthieu Lefebvre, Youyi Ruan, Elliott Sales de Andrade, Norbert Podhorszki, Ebru Bozdağ, and Jeroen Tromp, "An Adaptable Seismic Data Format", ''Geophysical Journal International'', Volume 207, Issue 2, November, 2016, pp. 1003–1011; online at [https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/207/2/1003/2583765].</ref>
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The '''Adaptable Seismic Data Format''' ('''ASDF''', not to be confused with the [[Advanced Scientific Data Format]]) is a format for storing seismic data as a replacement for [[SEED]], although the authors claim that in a limited area of application SEED will continue to be useful<ref name="paper" /><sup>, section 3.1</sup>. It is based on [[HDF5]], and has 4 main sections (implemented as HDF5 groups, except for the first, which is a single binary record):
* Non-time series data about seismic events, specified using an embedded [[QuakeML]] document<ref>https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/events.html</ref>
* Time series waveform data<ref name="wav">https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/waveforms.html</ref>. Metadata about the station that produced the data is optionally stored in an embedded [[StationXML]] file
* "Auxiliary data", which holds anything miscellaneous<ref name="aux">https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auxiliary_data.html</ref>
* Provenance of waveform<ref name="wav" /> or auxiliary<ref name="aux" /> data, specified with [[SEIS-PROV]] (a spun-off format)<ref>https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/provenance.html</ref>

== Specification ==
* [https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html The "Definition"]

== Software ==
* [https://github.com/SeismicData/asdf-library ASDF Library]: Official implementation
* [https://github.com/SeismicData/asdf_validate ASDF Format Validator]
* [https://github.com/SeismicData/asdf_sextant ASDF Sextant]: A graphical explorer
* [https://seismicdata.github.io/pyasdf/ Pyasdf]: A [[Python]] implementation

== Links ==
* [http://seismic-data.org/ Official website]
* [https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/207/2/1003/2583765 Published description]

== References ==
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[[Category:HDF based file formats]]