Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a common file format for storing, organizing, and retrieving large amounts of data. It was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and remains a popular file format for storing large amounts of scientific data in a semi-structured format. The website of the group responsible for maintaining the HDF5 standard and the previous HDF4 standard, as well as the library for accessing these files and wrappers for many programming languages, is as follows: https://www.hdfgroup.org/.
Right now, there isn't a convenient way of accessing HDF5 files in a way that would use Scala's programming style and idioms. The reader is encouraged to use the Java libraries for HDF5 access instead. These libraries should be placed in the lib
folder of your project and then can be used in much the same way they would be used in any Java program. To learn how to use the Java wrapper for the HDF5 libraries, consult the examples provided...