During the current year (beginning July 2006), the project has focused on the following:
To provide user support
For the EOS community in the form of HDF consulting assistance, workshops and training, and documentation.To maintain the HDF4 and HDF5 libraries and utilities and provide quality assurance.
Maintenance includes making minor feature changes to address EOSDIS requirements, correcting errors, keeping the software, test suites, configurations, and documentation current, and conducting periodic releases of the software. Quality assurance involves upgrading and extending software testing, reviewing and revising documentation, improving the software development process, and strengthening software development standards.To evolve the HDF5 library and utilities
By extending and adapting the HDF5 library to meet evolving functional and high performance computing requirements demanded by EOSDIS, investigating and implementing promising new technologies to address EOSDIS needs, and continuing to develop the HDF5 Viewer/Editor.To integrate HDF4 and HDF5 with complementary technologies and application domains.
Foremost is to operate well with HDF-EOS technologies, which means making sure that the two perform efficiently together and that the HDF-EOS library and tools use HDF as effectively as possible. Other technologies, such OPeNDAP, netCDF, XML, and GIS can add significant value when effectively integrated with HDF.To support the transition to NPOESS.
This means addressing questions about how EOSDIS DAACs, SIPs, and others will interoperate with NPOESS systems, and helping groups make the greatest use of NPOESS.To Support long-term preservation of HDF-EOS and HDF-NPOESS data.
The HDF Group will continue to work with the Earth Science community on the problems of long-term preservation of the HDF-EOS data stored in HDF4 and HDF5 formats, and future NPOESS data that will come in the HDF5 format.- - Last modified:August 15th 2007