H5Part development and discussion

[John Biddiscombe <biddisco AT cscs.ch>]

apologies
> these as string attributes - I wonder if standard names (like those 
> suggested above) could be chosen for Particle formats and enshrined 
> somewhere so that
The rest of this sentence was lost due to me typing more slowly than I 
could think. It should have said something along the lines of "if we 
make a list of "known" names and what they mean, then people can use 
them as string attributes". This would be similar to the "conventions" 
used commonly in the world of netCDF where meteo people use one set of 
standard names and other fields try to reuse them when they can, but 
make up new ones for their own specific needs. they get listed 
eventually as conventions to make the software writers' live easier.
> JB


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