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Community Calls
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- Project updates and demos
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- New contributor onboarding
Working Groups
Participate in focused working groups tackling specific aspects of battery data standardization.
- BDF Specification Working Group
- Python Tools Development
- Machine-Readable Standards
Featured Discussions
Active conversations from our community forum
Open standard for cycler output data
Community discussion that led to the creation of the Battery Data Format specification.
Battery Data Format (BDF): A New Open Standard
Official announcement of the Battery Data Format for battery data interoperability.
BDF Support for EIS
Discussion on extending BDF to support Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy data.
Python Package for Simple BDF Operations
Discussion on the batterydf Python package for reading and writing BDF files.
How are people storing and sharing large battery datasets?
Community discussion on best practices for managing and sharing large-scale battery data.
Thank you for BDF
Community members sharing their appreciation and experiences using the Battery Data Format.
Ways to Contribute
BDA is built by its community — not just code.
Share Data
Donate datasets to the BDF Datastore, or host your own in BDF format and we'll make it searchable.
View Datastore →Contribute Software
Help improve batterydf, add support for new formats, or donate your own open-source battery tools.
View Repositories →Donate Hardware
Contribute battery test equipment so the community can develop against more formats.
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