HTD data format

[ewidl]

Setups described by HTD are typically associated to some kind of input data (e.g., generation profiles). However, the HTD provides no means to distribute data in a consistent way. If any data is provided, there is no guarantee that a recipient of an HTD description has the knowledge or the tools to interpret this data.

Hence, I would like to define a format for attaching data to an HTD description. This could for instance be based on the data format used for the PreCISE approach (refer to Deliverable 3.3 from SmILES project for details), which provides a simple and machine-readable approach to share text-based data.

An example of how this could look like comes from the JRA1 benchmarks, e.g., the data attached to the multi-energy networks benchmark.