# HDF5 - A New Generation of HDF
The Hierarchical Data Format

### HDF Links at NCSA

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

XML and HDF5

- XML tools and standard XML DTD for HDF5

HDF5 Doc Development

- 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.

### HDF5 User Documentation
Release 1.6.1, October 2003

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

- 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

HDF5 Reference Manual *

- A complete reference manual for the HDF5 APIs

HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

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

Fortran90 and C++ APIs *

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

HDF5 Glossary *

- A glossary of terms as they are used in HDF5

HDF5 Tools

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

HDF5 Tutorial

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

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

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Last modified: 15 October 2003
Describes HDF5 Release 1.6.1, October 2003

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