Speaker
Mark Taylor
(University of Bristol)
Description
When working with astronomical data, metadata is also important. A general-purpose file format for transmission, processing and archiving large datasets should facilitate, among other things, both efficient processing of bulk data and encoding of rich semantic metadata. When choosing a format for a particular purpose sometimes no existing format satisfies both these requirements adequately, but combining one data-efficient and one metadata-rich format can be made to do so.
This poster discusses considerations for designing such hybrid data/metadata formats, and lists some examples. We focus on tabular data, but some of the considerations may apply to other datatypes such as arrays as well.
| Affiliation of the submitter | University of Bristol |
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| Attendance | in-person |
Primary author
Mark Taylor
(University of Bristol)
