Earthquake Hazards Program

U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 2008-1327
version 1.0

The Virtual Data Center Tagged-Format Tool—Introduction and Executive Summary

By John R. Evans, Melinda Squibb, Christopher D. Stephens, W.U. Savage, Hamid Haddadi, Charles A. Kircher, and Mahmoud M. Hachem

2008

This Report introduces and summarizes the new Virtual Data Center (VDC) Tagged Format (VTF) Tool, which was developed by a diverse group of seismologists, earthquake engineers, and information technology professionals for internal use by the COSMOS VDC and other interested parties for the exchange, archiving, and analysis of earthquake strong-ground-motion data.


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