Re: [h5md-user] H5MD author and creator attributes

[Peter Colberg]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:35:21AM +0200, Felix Höfling wrote:
> Am 31.07.2013, 04:56 Uhr, schrieb Peter Colberg
> <address@hidden>:
> 
> >I propose to modify the structure of the h5md group as follows:
> >
> >    h5md
> >     \-- author
> >     |    +-- name
> >     |    +-- (email)
> >     +-- creator
> >     |    +-- name
> >     |    +-- version
> >     +-- version
> >
> >The rationale is to bundle meta-data that describes the same object
> >(or subject, for the case of author) into a common group, rather
> >than prepending a common prefix to their attribute names.
> 
> This is a very good idea, I agree with your changes.

Great, I pushed the change.

> Not for 1.0: some time ago we discussed the case of multiple
> authors/creators if a file goes through a series of steps (e.g.
> keeping system preparation and production in one file). The natural
> extension to keep track of such a history would be to use (only in
> this case) extensible datasets instead of attributes for the above
> author/creator fields.

Another scenario which would make use of datasets is multiple authors,
which is probably not common for simulations, but conceivable for
large experiments.

Peter