2022-10-04

Attending: Will, Petr, June, J-M, Josh, Khaled, Seb, Andreas, Kevin, David, Wilma, Chris, David, Jason, Melissa, Kyle, Mina, Muhanad,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Seb)
  • Search released :tada: releasing rolling improvements
    • not announced yet - still testing performance etc.
    • only accessible from idr.openmicroscopy.org (no change in webclient)
    • notebooks updated, e.g. HPA searches now working e.g. https://github.com/IDR/idr-notebooks/blob/master/humanmine.ipynb
    • Next: remove mapr searches
    • Feedback to https://github.com/IDR/idr-gallery/issues/
  • Seb: storage
    • FIRE “not fit for purpose” for IDR
    • s3 might be viable alternative… needs testing
  • JM: idr0125 accepted but not imported etc in time for their publication - placeholder page
• OMERO
  • Josh: community trying Docker deploys a lot - needing help.
• Bio-Formats
  • Jetraw PR to add support. Not quite ready yet. Push release back a bit. Decision next week
    • CLA needed
  • PR review - assigned to milestones, reviewers etc.
• NGFF (Josh)
  • IDR-related spec features
    • How to include zip
    • Link to multiple storage locations, e.g. try to load from “fast” storage, if it fails, link from other
  • https://linkml.io/ another platform for modeling (and generating json-schema, json-ld, etc.)
    • Josh: want to try with NGFF data, OME-OWL etc
  • Java/Scala: v3 plus an async requirement - NetCDF, jzarr
    • Fiji, Webknosses, OME, etc interested
  • https://forum.image.sc/t/ome-ngff-community-call-transforms-and-tables/71792/8 tomorrow

• GerBI

• Glencoe (Chris):
  • security review, customer deployments
  • RHEL9 - interest in jumping 7 -> 9
    • new SSL versions etc
    • JM: generating wheels? Chris: yes
  • Customers want only dependencies with 5 year support. E.g. Java 11 close to limit
    • Josh: postgres? testing 14
  • NGFF work on aws and authentication
  • Seb: need to ask UoD whether systems will be updated to RHEL 8 or Ubuntu etc?
• Community

AOB

(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)