Each wireline company has its own proprietary format for recording digital data. The two most common formats are LIS (the de facto standard) and BIT. Considerable efforts are being made to standardize all of the various formats into a single industry-wide standard known as the API digital log interchange standard, or DLIS.<ref name=pt08r8>Froman, N. L., 1989, DLIS—API Digital Log Interchange Standard: The Log Analyst, v. 30, n. 5, p. 390–394.</ref> | Each wireline company has its own proprietary format for recording digital data. The two most common formats are LIS (the de facto standard) and BIT. Considerable efforts are being made to standardize all of the various formats into a single industry-wide standard known as the API digital log interchange standard, or DLIS.<ref name=pt08r8>Froman, N. L., 1989, DLIS—API Digital Log Interchange Standard: The Log Analyst, v. 30, n. 5, p. 390–394.</ref> |