How do you like to save your data and how much customizability do you like/need?

AwesomeQuest
Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:56:41 +0000
General Usage

I’m making an application that controls a spectrometer (among other things). The program is likely to be saving dozens if not hundreds of spectra, each being about 0.5MB.
There’s also some positional metadata that comes with each measurement.

So I ask: How would you as a researcher prefer to receive this data? With a prefix/suffix or customizable counter in the file name? How should the metadata be included?

Is there a standard file format I should be using like NetCDF?

How would you like the file saving settings to look like / function?

Each measurement is also related to other measurements in runs so should I actually be saving the individual spectra into one big file to make it easier to display and read the bulk data of a run?

I’m guessing I should also include the option to save the data as .csv afterwards but for speed reasons it’s not really practical to save the data as csv in real time.

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