AFM Image Data File Format

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I'm going to post some reference material around open file formats that might be appropriate for AFM here and would encourage contributions from others.

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https://frictionlessdata.io/

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https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

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http://hyperspy.org/hyperspy-doc/current/user_guide/io.html#hspy-hyperspy-s-hdf5-specification

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I think this is definitely worth exploring, perhaps would work "as is" with some custom metadata. Modifications or additions which are SPM specific might also be an option.

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https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/

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http://hyperspy.org/hyperspy-doc/current/api/hyperspy.io_plugins.emd.html
https://emdatasets.com/format/

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https://www.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files/

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https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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OME-NGFF: a next-generation file format for expanding bioimaging data-access strategies

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01326-w

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https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5/