tags: Tuesday —

2024-11-12

Attending: Will, Dom, JM, Maadhav, Khaled, Josh, Melissa, Kyle, Frances, Andreas, Chris, Seb, Petr, Kevin, David, Erin, Muhanad

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR Frances:
  • Preparing for NFDI data stewards meeting tomorrow morning 8am
  • idr-testing is back up with latests DB. Testing search with updated Antibody KVPs.
• OMERO
  • Java Oracle email UoD: implication on software stack. Please check and remove.
  • See also https://github.com/ome/omero-artifact-plugin/pull/25. Already jumped from Java 8 to Java 11. More will need a gradle upgrade.
  • omero-web 5.28.0 release ready to go when suitable. JM: let’s aim for early next week (Tues) - also release openmicroscopy following BF release this week (see below)
• Bio-Formats
  • Melissa: 8.0.1 - all PRs in Milestone have been merged. Ready to pick a date. Could be Thursday this week.
    • JM: yes, Thursday
  • Reviewing items for 8.1.0, including 1 external contribution
• NGFF
  • I2K/GBI/FoundingGIDE: challenge well received. Lots of enthusiasm. Number of groups want to get involved.
    • Offers of new data
    • Keeping data around
  • In need of a roadmap (perhaps as an RFC), e.g.,
    • 0.5: Zarr v3
    • 0.6: transforms
    • 0.7: RO-Crate?
    • … 1.0/2.0/LTS/etc.
    • Vendors interested in support etc.
  • Hackathon next week. Focus on Java, Python, and Workflows though multimodality perhaps as a unifying topic.
  • Seb: community call before end of year? Josh: yes, we have offers to run calls
  • J-M: useful to have the challenge data in March
  • Will: looking to update ome-zarr-py. found one issue in zarr-python. https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/pull/2480
• GerBI
  • Josh: NFDI4BIOIMAGE project to compare and document repository submissions. E.g. Zenodo AND BIA etc.
• Glencoe
  • Erin: heading to CBIAS (Crick) last week of November
• Community
  • OMERO workshop in Japan went fine, see https://x.com/openmicroscopy/status/1853634849078460860
  • OMERO workshop in Brno in preparation. 1-day workshop on 6th December

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)