[fitsbits] [Fwd: FITS to HDF5 converter]

[William Pence]

[Manually forwarded to FITSBITS because the sci.astro.fit<->FITSBIT gateway 
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Subject: FITS to HDF5 converter
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:38:11 -0600
From: Pedro Vicente Nunes <pvn at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Usenet @ UIUC - http://www.killfile.org/usenet/
Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits

The HDF group at NCSA is implementing a FITS to HDF5 converter. HDF5 is a
general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data.

We wrote an RFC (request for comments) of the software, that can be found
here

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/fits2h5/fits2h5.htm

one thing that we would like to do is to ask for the FITS community for
suggestions about the preferred way to write the HDF5 file

your comments would be highly appreciated

thank you

for more information about HDF5, see

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/