Welcome to One Stop HDF5 Documentation!

TASKS 😀	CONCEPTS 🙄	REFERENCE 😴
HDF5 Beginner New to HDF5? Start here! Cookbook (CB) Quick and easy recipes anyone can cook User Guides (UG) Tutorials on the most noteworthy features	Glossary Brief explanations of terms used throughout (Hyperspace?) Request for Comments (RFC) Methods, behaviors, research, or innovations Technical Notes (TN) Specific developments, techniques, procedures, or modifications	Reference Manual (RM) The nuts and bolts of HDF5. All of them! Release Information (REL) The poetry of the release cycle Specifications (SPEC) HDF5 is made exactly to it. File Format (FMT) No bit gets left behind.

Other formats and versions of the HDF5 documentation can be found here (maintained) and here (unmaintained).

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News:

2020-07-29: A Bitbucket branch for the Doxygen-based RM was created. Periodic snapshots can be found here.
2020-07-24: A slightly refined Doxygen version is available
2020-07-16: Barbara is working on release information
2020-07-15: Werner is working on a Doxygen example
2020-07-14: What about Docs Like Code?
2020-07-09: Enjoy the movies!
2020-07-07: A sample RFC was added.
2020-07-04: The search function was adjusted to search the following namespaces by default: Main, CB, RM, TN, UG
2020-07-03: A small fragment of the file format spec. was added.

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