The Blosc meta-compressor
Blosc is an open source compression library that offers a number of features that make it unique among compressor software.
Guided metadata improvement to increase data sharing and understanding
Lindsay Powers, The HDF Group The HDF Group is collaborating with the University of California, Santa Barbara and Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE), to help scientific research communities enhance the consistency and quality of their metadata, to foster discovery, access and understanding of data resources. As part of this collaboration, on February 9, 2016,
HDF5 and .NET: One step back, two steps forward
… enables the creation of new APIs, be it a more specific one or a new higher level API. All this is achieved in a maintainable, .NET-conformant manner, while enabling .NET developers to be creative and efficient with HDF5.
The HDF Group at the ESIP Winter Meeting
Ted Habermann, The HDF Group The first week of January brought leaders of the Earth Science informatics community together in Washington DC for the winter meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP Federation). This year NOAA’s Environmental Data Management Workshop was co-located with ESIP for five exciting days of data management ideas
Release of HDF5 1.10.0-alpha1
single write/multiple read, virtual dataset, scalable chunk indexing, free file space tracking, collective metadata I/O
To Serve and Protect: Web Security for HDF5
HDF Server is a new product from The HDF Group which enables HDF5 resources to be accessed and modified using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The newest version of HDF Server provides exciting capabilities for accessing data in an easy and secure way.
Would you like SQL with your HDF5?
We are currently planning for a Q2 2016 release of the product. In the meantime, we are working with a few early adopters on finalizing the initial feature set. If you have additional questions about HDF5/ODBC, or if you would like to become an early adopter, please contact us
The HDF Group is New OCC Member
John Readey, The HDF Group We’re pleased to announce that The HDF Group is now a member of the Open Commons Consortium (formerly Open Cloud Consortium), a not for profit that manages and operates cloud computing and data commons infrastructure to support scientific, medical, health care and environmental research. The HDF Group will be participating
Whither HDF Java?
Joel Plutchak, The HDF Group The HDF Group’s support for and use of the Java Programming Language consists of Java wrappers for the HDF4 and HDF5 C libraries, an Object Model definition and implementation, and HDFView, a graphical file viewing application. In this article we’ll discuss what we’re doing now with Java, and look toward
Python & HDF5 – A Vision
Anthony Scopatz, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina, HDF guest blogger “Python is great and its ecosystem for scientific computing is world class. HDF5 is amazing and is rightly the gold standard for persistence for scientific data. Many people use HDF5 from Python, and this number is only growing due to pandas’ HDFStore.