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Spreadsheet file format
Data Interchange Format (.dif) is an obsolete text file format used to import/export single spreadsheets between spreadsheet programs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Data Interchange FormatA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Teaching case : electronic data interchange in port information systemsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: EDIBIBThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: EMTF XML: New data interchange format and conversion tools for electromagnetic transfer functionsCited 13 times
- Go sideways: Comma-separated valuesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: SpreadsheetA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
EMTF XML: New data interchange format and conversion tools for electromagnetic transfer functions
XAFS Data Interchange: A single spectrum XAFS data file format
A lightweight data interchange format for internet of things with applications in the PalCom middleware framework
Filematch: a format for the interchange of computer-based files of structured data
CASE Data Interchange Format standards
An XML-based interchange format for genotype-phenotype data
Streamlining experiment data manipulation with psychology experiment data interchange format (PXDIF)
TSX and TSE: A proposal for an extended time series data interchange and transfer format
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕EDIBIBJuliet Leeves · 1993
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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