On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 9:17 AM Qianqian Fang
2. a key belief https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCD_JNtWQAgLq6N?format=png&name=4096x4096 of the NeuroJSON project is that "human readability" is the single most important factor to decide the longevity of both codes and data. The human-readability of codes have been well addressed and reinforced by open-source/free/libre software licenses (specifically, Freedom 1 https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#make-changes). but not many people have been paying attention to the "readability" of data.
Hi Qianqian, I think you might be interested in the Zarr storage format, for exactly this same reason: https://zarr.dev/ Zarr is focused more on "big data" but one of its fundamental strengths is that the format is extremely simple. All the metadata is in JSON, with arrays divided up into smaller "chunks" stored as files on disk or in cloud object stores. Cheers, Stephan