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tethered-h5 v2.0 schema

Description

This is an HDF5 file for saving tethered flight data. This is a specific format for a single set of experiments performed by Linda Ma in July and August 2011.

This datasets (and others) is in this file:

• /metadata - JSON-encoded string describing experimental conditions

Metadata

Here is an example metadata section. It is a JSON string held in an HDF5 variable length string array.

{"timestamp": "2011-05-24 16:56:26+02:00",

 "experiment script": "hausen4.py",

 "experimenter": "Karin",

 "genotype": "R27BO3xTNTa"}

Example: reading metadata from the command line

To dump the metadata dataset in the file tethered-h5-data-file.h5 using the h5dump command, use this:

h5dump -d /metadata tethered-h5-data-file.h5

Note about user block in .h5 format

The first bytes of the file are an HDF5 user block that describe the schema of the file. (In other words, it's a descriptor that points to this page.) By putting the first bytes in this file, the freedesktop.org file identification machinery can automatically identify this file.