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Hierarchical Data Format

Family of file formats

Also known as HDF

Instance of: file format family
Subclass of: file format
Website: hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5

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Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a set of file formats designed to store and organize large amounts of data. Originally developed at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, it is supported by The HDF Group, a non-profit corporation whose mission is to ensure continued development of HDF5 technologies and the continued accessibility of data stored in HDF.

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File extension: hdf
h4
hdf4
he2
h5
hdf5
he5
Developer: The HDF Group
Has use: open science
open access
FAIR Data Principles
File format identification pattern: \211HDF\r\n\032\n
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Sources
1.hdf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format.html
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