It would be nice to have some conventions for certain part attributes, like manufacturer’s part numbers, so tool builders would know where to look for things. If I build a library with a field called manf#, and somebody else builds a library with a field called ‘MPN’, then the tools have to be able to find part numbers in both fields. And the problem gets worse as more people make more libraries using different field names for the same things.
I’m not asking for atomic parts (whatever those are) or re-writes of libraries or anything else. But is there, or can there be, a list of field names and definitions of what they contain which library creators and tool builders can follow to minimize incompatibilities?