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DAS-RCN / RCN_DASformat

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file extension: *.das or *.iris or ... #8

Closed andreas-wuestefeld closed 1 year ago

andreas-wuestefeld commented 1 year ago

Although the data is in fact a HDF5 format, it would be beneficial to indicate data format by a distinctive extension

Does anyone has an opinion on the file extension ".das"? Is that already being used and causing conflicts? how about ".iris"?

other suggestions?

andreas-wuestefeld commented 1 year ago

format name is now *.miniDAS

jpmorten-asn commented 1 year ago

My suggestion would be to avoid confusion by keeping .hdf5 as the extension. To determine the format type/version, the solution is to access the metadata.

miili commented 1 year ago

If it is HDF5 I would argue for .hdf5.

However it is to argue that our data is not hierarchical whatsoever and we may be better off defining a binary data format ourselves. After all the data is rather simple. HDF5 may be overkill.

anowacki commented 1 year ago

I agree that .hdf5 or .h5 (more common in my experience) is better. Using HDF5 is nice because it is self-describing and can already be ready easily in many environments, so I'm happy with that as a format and don't think we need to devise another binary format. I agree with @jpmorten-asn that the file metadata should be used to tell that it is miniDAS and which version of the file format it is.