ASDF standard

This document describes the Advanced Scientific Data Format (ASDF), pronounced AZ-diff.

The full specification is available at:

http://asdf-standard.readthedocs.org/

A paper, ASDF: A new data format for astronomy about ASDF has been published in Astronomy and Computing:

Greenfield, P., Droettboom, M., & Bray, E. (2015). ASDF: A new
data format for Astronomy.  *Astronomy and Computing*.  (In
press).  doi:10.1016/j.ascom.2015.06.004

Build requirements

• sphinx
• sphinx_bootstrap_theme
• jsonschema
• pyyaml
• mistune

The following command should install these requirements::

pip install sphinx sphinx_bootstrap_theme jsonshema pyyaml mistune