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The Hierarchical Data Format


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HDF Help Desk
  • Email to HDF Technical Support

HDF Home Page

HDF Newsletters
  • News about HDF and HDF5

HDF5 FTP Archives
  • HDF5 source code archives

HDF5 Overview, etc.
  • Overview of HDF5 library and development effort (slide show)
  • Other HDF5-related papers and presentations

HDF5-File.dtd

  • Standard XML DTD for HDF5 files

HDF5 Doc Development
  • Snapshots of future releases
  • Related document sets not part of standard release
  • Errata and bugfixes for this release (if available)

HDF5 User Documentation
Development Release 1.3
(Unrelased development version -- Dynamic)

An Introduction to HDF5 *
  • An overview of design goals behind the HDF5 library and file format
  • An introduction to HDF5 programming
HDF5 User's Guide *
  • Descriptions of the HDF5 APIs
  • Extended information supporting the use of HDF5
HDF5 Reference Manual *
  • A complete reference manual for the HDF5 APIs
HDF5 Application Developer's Guide
  • Standards definitions and development guidelines
HDF5 Glossary *
  • A glossary of terms as they are used in HDF5
HDF5 Tutorial *
  • A tutorial introduction to HDF5
  • XML DTD documentation is not yet available with this release.
  • New PDF/PS versions of the doc set will be available with Release 1.4.
  • Parallel HDF5 Design
    • The design specification of the parallel HDF5 APIs
    • An example program
    Parallel HDF5 Implementation
    • The current status of implmentation of the parallel HDF5 APIs

    HDF5 Library Development Documentation

    HDF5 File Format Specification
    • The complete specification of the HDF5 file format
    HDF5 Technical Notes
    • Technical notes for HDF5 library and driver developers
    (Internet links)
    (Local links)


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    HDF Help Desk
    Last modified: 13 September 2000
    Describes HDF5 Release 1.4 Beta, December 2000