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Name

Role

Data type

Exists?
A / O / NS

Description

Convention / example

type

a

utf8

NS

type of signals in the set.

Value NS maps to “General”.

“General”, “Frequency”, “Time”

rawName

i

utf8

O

original signal set name if this had to be renamed to be used as valid hdf5 name.

description

i

utf8

NS

additional description of the set

(tbd)

parent

s

obj_ref

O

Link to parent signal set.

(tbd)

parentName

s

utf8

O

For information only: the name of the parent signal set.

dataScale

a

float64

A

Scale of the signal values in the set with respect to full scale

1.0 ( full scale)

23.456 (model scale)

0.023456 (larger than life)

waterDensityFactor

a

float64

NS

water density factor to be used for scaling data values to full scale.
Preferred ‘not specified’over a default value.

1.432

stepSize

i

float64

A

if one and only one master signal for all signals and it is equidistant a value; otherwise, NaN

In case of a time master this is the inverse of the sample rate.

dateTimeRecordingStart

a

iso_fmt

A

date and time of first sample of the time signal of measurement or simulation.
Required for time series only..

(tbd)

dateTimeRecordingEnd

a

iso_fmt

O

date and time of last sample of the time signal of the measurement or simulation.
(May disappear in future versions.)

(tbd)

projectNo

a

int32

A

projectnumber

“80220”

projectSubNo

i

int32

NS

subnumber

“368”

programNo

a

int32

A

test programme number

1

source

a

utf8

A

name of the source application or facility
Within one project each ‘programmeNo’  is a fixed combination with the ‘source’.

“SMB”, “ReFresco”

categoryNo

a

int32

A

Number of the test category used.

2

testNo

a

int32

A

Number of the test setup used.

3

experimentNo

a

int32

A

Number of the experiment settings used.

4

measurementNo

a

int32

A

Number of the actual measurement c.q. experiment execution

2

modelScale

a

float64

A

Scale of the model in this project. (Unrelated to the signal values in the set.)

23.456

notes

i

utf8

NS

Any additional information about this signal set.

(free text)

writeErrors

i

utf8[]

O

Specifies any errors that occurred while writing the signal set (group).