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HDF Kita is a web service that can be used to send and receive HDF5 data.
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HDF Kita uses a REST interface to support CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on
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the full spectrum of HDF5 objects including: groups, links, datasets, attributes, and
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committed data types. As HDF Kita is a REST-based service, a variety of clients can be developed in
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JavaScript, Python, C, and other common languages.
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The HDF REST API is an interface to HDF5 data stored on network-based architectures.
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The HDF REST API has provisions to support CRUD (create, read, update and delete) operations on
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the full spectrum of HDF5 objects including: groups, links, datasets, attributes, and committed
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data types. See https://support.hdfgroup.org/pubs/papers/RESTful_HDF5.pdf for more information on the
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RESTful HDF5 interface.
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As a REST-based API, implementations can be developed in a variety of languages, such as
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JavaScript, Python, C, and other common languages. Some services which implement the HDF REST API are:
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HDF Kita: https://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf-kita
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H5serv: https://github.com/HDFGroup/h5serv
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