Generic writing of an .h5ebsd file

[CSSFrancis]

I am in the process of allowing Direct Electron Cameras to write directly to an h5ebsd. Looking further into this it seems like there are many different headers/ ways to write the header for an h5ebsd file.

I was wondering if there is a more/less correct way to write this file and what standard you would recommend. Ideally, it would be nice to write one file type that would be readable by the largest number of EBSD software without having to individually implement each file type.

[hakonanes]

There isn't, unfortunately. h5ebsd is a format proposed by Mike Jackson (DREAM.3D), Dave Rowenhorst (PyEBSDIndex), Marc De Graef (EMsoft), and others in https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9772-3-4.

Variations on storing EBSD datasets in HDF5 files I know of:

• EDAX TSL, example file
• Oxford Instruments H5OINA, specification
• Bruker Nano, example file
• kikuchipy's format (no standard! Only meant to be used internally in kikuchipy and to index patterns processed in kikuchipy with EMsoft)

I'm curious, why are you creating this writer?