We describe a data format currently in use amongst European institutions for exchanging and archiving pulsar data. The format is designed to be as flexible as possible with regard to present and future compatibility with different operating systems. One application of the common format is simultaneous multi-frequency observations of single pulses. A data archive containing over 2500 pulse profiles stored in this format is now available via the Internet (see http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pulsar/data), together with a small suite of computer programs that can read, write and display the data.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9801097,
title = {A flexible format for exchanging pulsar data},
author = {D. R. Lorimer and A. Jessner and J. H. Seiradakis and A. G. Lyne and N. D'Amico and A. Athanasopoulos and K. M. Xilouris and M. Kramer and R. Wielebinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9801097},
year = {2009}
}