User-friendly Metadata (UFM) -- Unsupported

The User-friendly Metadata (UFM) is a tool that takes an ODL file as input and generates an HTML file as output.

Installing UFM

Building this program does not require HDF-EOS2 , HDF-EOS5 , HDF4 or HDF5 libraries. It is straightforward to build this program by using the provided Makefile. Also, a pre-built binary for Linux is available.

Using UFM

This program takes an ODL file. Figure 1 shows part of a common ODL file. One can obtain this ODL file from the UFM package stored as a zip file or a gzip file. After unzipping the package, one may find a few .odl files. The name of the ODL file used in this page is example.odl.

From the input, this program generates an HTML representation of the input. The HTML representation can be more readable. Figure 2 shows part of the generated HTML representation viewed in a web browser.

Figure 2 HTML representation of an ODL file

One may obtain the information stored in ODL shown in this example from the CoreMetadata attribute in an HDF-EOS2 file or the CoreMetadata dataset in an HDF-EOS5 file. One way to extract the information is to use HDF View .