FAIRsharing record for: Open standard for particle-mesh data

This FAIRsharing record describes: The openPMD standard, short for open standard for particle-mesh data files is not a file format per se. It is guidance for meta data and naming schemes.

openPMD provides naming and attribute conventions that allow to exchange particle and mesh based data from scientific simulations and experiments. The primary goal is to define a minimal set/kernel of meta information that allows to share and exchange data to achieve portability between various applications and differing algorithms, a unified open-access description for scientific data (publishing and archiving), and a unified description for post-processing, visualization and analysis. If output from programs, devices (such as cameras), simulations or post-processed data-sets contain a minimal set of meta information as provided by openPMD, you can exchange data between those with minimal effort and you use the same tools for visualization.