Release of h4h5tools 2.2.4 – Newsletter #166
Version 2.2.4 of the h4toh5 Conversion Library and Tools is now available from the HDF Support Portal.
Version 2.2.4 of the h4toh5 Conversion Library and Tools is now available from the HDF Support Portal.
Pre-release versions of both HDFView 3.0 and HDF5-1.10.3 are now available. We encourage users to try them and let us know if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions.
A few years ago, I was looking for a data format with low latency block and stream support. While protocol buffers offered streams, it was lacking indexed block access. Soon, I realized I was looking for a container with file system-like properties. When I examined HDF5, I found it was very close to what I needed to store massive financial engineering datasets….
Chicago area HDF5 friends: Please join us at this meetup on July 31st for a talk by Gerd Heber and Steven Varga.
The release of HDF 4.2.14 and examples for Accessing NASA ESDIS Data
David Ziganto is a senior data scientist and corporate trainer at Metis in Chicago, IL. This post was originally shared on his site at https://dziganto.github.io/, but we enjoyed it so much we wanted to share it with everyone.
The topic of software citation has been discussed in many forums recently and several major discovery repositories (e.g. zenodo and DataCite) support metadata for software in addition to datasets and other resource types. HDF5 stradles the boundary between the dataset and software worlds. It is most commonly thought of and referred to as a data format, but, as in any case, data written in the HDF formats can not be read without HDF software. So, the answer to the question: is it a format or is it software? is clearly both.
The HDF5 1.8.21 release is now available, and can be accessed from both the HDF5 download page and Support Portal.