Request for Use Cases - h5import and text data

Request for Use Cases - h5import and text data

h5import is an HDF5 tool that converts floating point or integer data stored in ASCII or binary files into the HDF5 format. Currently h5import only processes numeric data. The HDF Group plans to add support for importing text data into HDF5 using h5import.

We are now soliciting use cases that will guide the design of the text to dataset import feature in h5import. Please consider text you might want to import and how you would want to access that text once it is in the HDF5 file, and send your use cases to help@hdfgroup.org before September 17, 2007.

Thank you for your help as we strive to improve our tools.