These are older documents and pubs. They're kept here for historic reasons and to acknowledge the authors for starting the project, but they aren't particularly relevant to the current state of Daffodil.

• McGrath, R.E., J. Kastner, A. Rodriguez, and J. Myers. ``Defuddle: a Tool for Format Translation and Metadata Extraction (Poster)''. Microsoft E-science Workshop (2009).
• McGrath, R.E., J. Kastner, A. Rodriguez, and J. Myers. ``Experiments in Data Format Interoperation Using Defuddle'', National Center for Supercomputing Applications, June, 2009, Data_Interoperation.pdf.
• McGrath, R.E., J. Kastner, A. Rodriguez, and J. Myers. ``Towards a Semantic Preservation System'', National Center for Supercomputing Applications, June, 2009, http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3152.
• Rodriguez, A. and R. E. McGrath, ``Some Notes of comparison between DFDL and Defuddle''. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, October, 2010, Review_of_Defuddle.pdf.
• Rodriguez, Alejandro and Robert E. McGrath, ``Daffodil: A New DFDL Parser''. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, October, 2010, Daffodil-ANewDFDLParser.pdf.
• Joseph Futrelle and Robert E. McGrath, ``Daffodil Parser: Explorations of the DFDL Standard'' National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign June, 2011. DaffodilEvaluation.pdf
• McGrath, R.E., Data Format Description Language: Lessons Learned Concepts and Experience, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, September, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/27693