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Simple Header: Strawman, plus feedback, plus URN identifiers

Chad Trabant edited this page Jul 23, 2017 · 2 revisions

The "Simple Header" specification

This page contains the draft specification for the combination of the 2016 IRIS Strawman, combined with the feedback received, combined with the "stream identifier" concept discussed at the Feb. 2017 meeting, combined with refinements identified by the technical evaluation group (participating in the discussion in this repository).

The 20170718 draft (2017 July 18)

The specification comes in two parts:

  1. The FDSN Identifier specification (Download PDF)

Could be used beyond miniSEED, e.g. for StationXML and web services

Remaining to be determined:

  • Location identifier conventions
  1. The miniSEED 3 specification (Download PDF)

Remaining to be determined/finalized:

  • General compression, which one?
  • Reserved header structure, schema and encoding
  • sample rate 32 vs 64 bit value
  • sample count 16 vs 32 bit value