HDF5 - A New Generation of HDF
The Hierarchical Data Format

• Email to HDF Technical Support

• News about HDF and HDF5

• HDF5 source code archives

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

• XML tools and standard XML DTD for HDF5

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

Printer-friendly Docs

• PDF version of the HDF5 Reference Manual for Release 1.6.1 will be available from the HDF5 website approximately one week after the release.

• An overview of design goals behind the HDF5 library and file format
• An introduction to HDF5 programming

• A new user's guide, though currently a work in progress
• This guide will be updated as work progresses; current status will always be posted on the opening page
• The HDF5 Release 1.4.5 User's Guide remains available, though it has not been updated for the current release

• A complete reference manual for the HDF5 APIs

• Changes since the last release
• Standards definitions and development guidelines

• Non-C APIs linked from and incorporated in the HDF5 Reference Manual

• A glossary of terms as they are used in HDF5

• HDF5 tools, including Java-based tools
• HDFView, h5dump, h5ls, h5toh4, etc.

• A tutorial introduction to HDF5
  (served from the HDF5 website at NCSA)

• The design specification of the parallel HDF5 APIs
• An example program

• The current status of implmentation of the parallel HDF5 APIs

• The complete specification of the HDF5 file format

• Technical notes for HDF5 library and driver developers