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rseng-scientific-file-formats

Covers choosing and handling scientific data formats in code: HDF5 and NetCDF for array data, CF conventions and standard metadata, Parquet for tabular data, domain standards (NeXus and similar), self-describing files, chunking and compression choices, and migrating away from fragile formats like pickles and ad-hoc binaries. Use when the user chooses a file format for research data, reads or writes HDF5/NetCDF/Parquet/zarr-style stores, asks about chunking, compression or metadata embedding, or ships data in CSV, pickle, MAT or homegrown binary formats that deserve scrutiny. (The surrounding data practice - versioning, deposit, licensing, documentation - is rseng-data-management.)

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Scientific file formats in code

File formats are decade-scale decisions: data outlives the code that wrote it, and a format choice made in a script today determines whether a dataset is readable, FAIR and efficient in ten years. The guiding principle is SELF-DESCRIBING data: a file a stranger can open and understand - variables named, units attached, provenance noted - without emailing the author (rseng-data-management owns the surrounding practice; this skill owns the format engineering).

Choosing a format

  • Multidimensional arrays (grids, time series stacks, images, simulation output): NetCDF (atmosphere/ocean/climate lingua franca, built on HDF5) or HDF5 directly; both hierarchical, self-describing, partial-read capable and language-portable.
  • Tabular data at scale: Parquet - columnar, typed, compressed, schema-carrying; the upgrade path from CSV when files grow or types matter.
  • Small human-facing tables and interchange: CSV is fine - WITH a stated dialect (delimiter, encoding, quoting) and a data dictionary alongside (rseng-data-management).
  • Domain standards first: if the field has one (NeXus for photon/ neutron science, CF-governed NetCDF in climate, community formats generally), emitting it beats inventing anything - it is what colleagues' tools already read (rseng-fair-software's I).

Formats to migrate away from when encountered: pickles as storage (unreadable outside Python, version-fragile, unsafe to load from strangers), unversioned homegrown binaries, MAT files as long-term archives, spreadsheets as databases. Flag them, explain the failure mode, offer the migration.

Metadata: the self-describing part

  • Attach units, long names and fill values to every variable at write time - in code, not in a README written later. CF conventions define exactly how for NetCDF and are checkable with automated compliance checkers; run one in CI when a project's outputs claim CF compliance (rseng-ci-cd).
  • Record provenance in file attributes: producing software and version, input identifiers, creation time, configuration hash - the file should testify about its own origin.
  • Keep schemas versioned: when a project's file layout evolves, add a format-version attribute, and keep readers for old versions or a migration script (rseng-legacy-code discipline applied to data).

Performance engineering: chunking and compression

  • Chunk to match access patterns: time-slice reads want chunks along time; map reads want spatial chunks. Wrong chunking makes reads orders of magnitude slower on large stores - decide from how the data will be READ, not written.
  • Compression is usually free performance for scientific data (gzip/zstd-class codecs); test level trade-offs on real data, and prefer bit-shuffle-style filters for floats where available.
  • For cloud or parallel access, chunked stores (HDF5/NetCDF-4 and their cloud-optimized descendants in the Pangeo ecosystem) enable partial and concurrent reads - the pattern behind scalable analysis (rseng-big-data-processing).

Testing format code

Round-trip tests (write, read back, compare with tolerances - rseng-numerical-accuracy), a checked-in small golden file to catch accidental format changes, and reading files produced by OTHER tools in the ecosystem as compatibility tests (rseng-testing).

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This skill is source-independent: its authority is the format specifications and community conventions linked below.

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  • rseng-big-data-processing - chunked stores enable scalable reads
  • rseng-data-management - surrounding dataset practice and deposit
  • rseng-fair-software - domain standards serve interoperability
  • rseng-legacy-code - schema versioning and old-format readers
  • rseng-numerical-accuracy - round-trip tests need float tolerances
  • rseng-testing - golden-file and compatibility tests
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