HDF5 Conversion Site Knowledge Transfer, Software Transfer, and Issues

[wa6gz]

Use this thread as a workspace for developing and trading information about HDF5 conversion. Example topics that are useful for this group:

• Sharing existing converters from sites
• Problems using existing converters
• Requests for help identifying a pathway to conversion from your current format
• Resources for writing your own converter

Check out our waveform converter github page to see current software with examples.

[Chesterguan]

@wa6gz Hi Will, thanks to provide the tool, I checked the full documents from UVA converter, I am not sure whether I understand it correctly, the converter only support for Vitals right ? For waveform, it's not implemented yet.

[wa6gz]

Hi Chester- I tried CSV conversion with my own file and couldn't get it to process properly as well. Send me your file (washe@virginia.edu) and I'll pass them both to our software developer to take a look.

[Chesterguan]

Hi Will, yes, I sent you the sample file just now. Please let me know if you did not receive it.

my email is ziyuan.guan@ufl.edu

[wa6gz]

Yes, I see it now- thanks! I'll pass it on.

[Chesterguan]

Just to make notes here for sharing with other sites:

1. Time should be saved as milliseconds
2. For meta data, only contain file meta data. Exclude other metadata

Thanks Will!

[wa6gz]

Just a quick clarification - file metadata (in the root group, '/') and signal metadata (in the "data" dataset in a channel, i.e. "/VitalSigns/HR/" will actually add the attributes to "/VitalSigns/HR/data") can be added, I think certain characters or certain metadata attribute names will cause issues - I'll try to do more testing and post an example soon.