[wg11] RE: Request for Critical Comments on Draft 0.1 of EXPRESS/HDF5 specification

[David Price]

All,

A quick update on this request.

1) Please send any comment by the end of this week ... DEADLINE May 20 for
comments.

2) I've made contact with the HDF development team. I'll send a separate
email on that. However, the quick summary is that they are eager for us to
make progress and are interested in helping. They've also been investigating
potential HDF standardization. It looks like our goals overlap
significantly. Really good news.

Cheers,
David

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Subject: Request for Critical Comments on Draft 0.1 of EXPRESS/HDF5
specification


All,

You are receiving this email because you have participated in a session on
the EXPRESS/Binary data representation project or expressed an interest in
keeping informed.

Draft 0.1 of a specification for representing EXPRESS-driven data using HDF5
has been posted. The project asks that experts interested in this topic,
especially those with HDF5 experience, review the specification and provide
feedback over the next 2 weeks. It was created by people with no direct HDF5
experience and the aim was simply to document a starting point for further
work.

A small Web page supporting the project is available at (see the V0.1 link
at the bottom of the page):

http://www.exff.org/stepbin.html

The mapping was developed at a workshop at the recent ISO STEP meeting in
Lillehammer. The short-term plan developed at the Lillehammer meeting was as
follows:

1 – Product initial draft specification
2 – Distribute draft specification for review
3 – Address any comments from review
4 – Find at least two groups willing to write proof-of-concept software
based on the specification 5 – Provide an example schema and example data
for testing 6 – Exchange HDF5 files between the two groups to see if
interoperability occurs 7 – Report results at June ISO STEP meeting in
Valencia

We would like to address issues as soon as possible and produce another
draft, if necessary, so that software development can happen in time for
results to be presented at the next ISO STEP meeting in Valencia on June
14-16. The exact date for the sessions in Valencia have not yet been set.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Cheers,
David

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