XLUM: an open data format for exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data

Kreutzer, Sebastian; Grehl, Steve; Höhne, Michael; Simmank, Oliver; Dornich, Kay; Adamiec, Grzegorz; Burow, Christoph; Roberts, Helen M.; Duller, Geoff A. T.

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XLUM: an open data format for exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data

Sebastian Kreutzer, Steve Grehl, Michael Höhne, Oliver Simmank, Kay Dornich, Grzegorz Adamiec, Christoph Burow, Helen M. Roberts, and Geoff A. T. Duller

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The concept of open data has become the modern science meme. Funding bodies and publishers support open data. However, the open data mandate frequently encounters technical obstacles, such as a lack of a suitable data format for data sharing and long-term data preservation. Such issues are often community-specific and demand community-tailored solutions. We propose a new human-readable data format for data exchange and long-term preservation of luminescence data called XLUM.

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