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

HDF5-File.dtd

• Standard XML DTD for HDF5 files

• Snapshots of future releases
• Related document sets not part of standard release
• Errata, bugfixes, and updates for this release (if available)
• Note: Updates of the document set will be available here as we move from the 1.4 Beta toward the final 1.4 release.

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

• Descriptions of the HDF5 APIs
• Extended information supporting the use of HDF5

• A complete reference manual for the HDF5 APIs

• Standards definitions and development guidelines

• A glossary of terms as they are used in HDF5

• 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