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ito-suite / node-ito-transcoder

The transcoder is a shell application with node bindings for file transcoding.

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Rare Data Formats #4

Open denjello opened 9 years ago

denjello commented 9 years ago

We do not have a strategy for dealing with several important scientific (or historical) data types, such as:

image/fits
- Magic number(s): "SIMPLE = T"
hdf
- hdf5
hdt (header dictionary triple)

Looking for guidance.

denjello commented 9 years ago

My feeling is that it would be interesting to be able to define processes / 3rd party tools to deal with this kind of data. At the same time for the types mentioned, finding a "one-size-fits-all" approach is not going to be simple.

dasantonym commented 9 years ago

the question is what we actually want to achieve by processing those files... in our case it is mostly for previewing but with scientific data that is the actual research part. i guess extracting metadata from hdf5 would still be a nice idea but the data itself should be rather useless in our scenario.