HDF5 - A New Generation of HDF
The Hierarchical Data Format

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, Papers, etc.

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

High Level HDF5 APIs

• High level APIs for easier HDF5 application development
• Image, Table, and HDF5 Lite

Parallel HDF5

• HDF5 in parallel computing environments
• Installation, tutorial, Q&A, design notes

XML and HDF5

• XML tools and standard XML DTD for HDF5

Printer-friendly Docs

• PDF versions of selected HDF5 documents will be available from the HDF5 website approximately one week after each release.

HDF5 Doc Development

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

An Introduction to HDF5

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

HDF5 Tutorial

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

HDF5 User's Guide

• A new user's guide, first published in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series
  (Served from the HDF5 website at NCSA)
• The HDF5 Release 1.4.5 User's Guide remains available, though it has not been updated for the current release

HDF5 Reference Manuals

• Complete reference manuals for the HDF5 APIs
• C APIs, HDF5’s “native language”
• High level C APIs: Image, Table, and HDF5 Lite
  (Served from the HDF5 website at NCSA)
• Fortran90 APIs
• C++ APIs
• JHI5, the Java HDF5 Interface

HDF5 and “Foreign Languages”

• Fortran90 User's Notes, Flags and Datatypes, and Reference Manual
• C++ Reference Manual
• Java products and the Java HDF5 Interface
  (Served from the HDF5 website at NCSA)

HDF5 Glossary

• A glossary of terms as they are used in HDF5

HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

• Standards definitions and development guidelines
• Changes in the HDF5 Library since the last release

HDF5 Tools

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

HDF5 File Format Specification

• The complete specification of the HDF5 file format

HDF5 C++ API Design Specification

• First draft of the design specification for the HDF5 C++ APIs
  (Served from the HDF5 website at NCSA)

HDF5 Technical Notes

• Technical notes for HDF5 library and driver developers