tags: Tuesday —

2025-01-21

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR Frances:
  • NFDI data stewards meeting on Friday to demo import process and highlight validation issues etc.
  • idr0159 preparing for next release. Start import next week.
• OMERO
  • LUTs: - PR open https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pull/603
  • VPN access to various machines at UoD. Looking good (but need to use IP addresses for some machines)
  • Andreas: some prep work started for next release
• Bio-Formats: Melissa
  • Discussed response to new reader offer
• NGFF
  • Zarr status
    • zarr-python 3.0.1+
      • Some issues using this with Zarr v2?
    • spec corrections: mostly naming and extensions need clarification
  • RFC status
    • RFC-5: transforms. Target OME 2025 meeting?
    • RFC-4: anatomical coordinates. Good progress.
    • RFC-3: more dimensions and any order - loosening of spec
    • upcoming: RFC-6 (multiscales) and RFC-7? (channels metadata, not rendering)
  • Targets
    • ASAP: 0.5 release announcement (soft release end of last year). 0.6 to follow “soon”.
    • May (OME2025): transforms
    • … Roadmap …
    • ~December: 1.0
  • Community meetings (monthly), etc.
  • Jason: RFC process: how many reviews and how do you make decisions based on reviews?
    • Josh: No hard rules. “sufficient” reviews
    • Jason: nice to avoid paper review scenario where editor has no opinion/expertise. Not a simple democracy / voting.
• GerBI
  • hiring for NGFF position
  • N4BI Repository challenge (Feb-June)
    • Compare submission process to different repositories
  • Trends in Microscopy (March 17-21)
  • CytoData Berlin (Sep 17-21) - Get data into OME-Zarr before the meeting
  • TF Metadata: DCAT, EHDS and schema services
• Glencoe
  • Chris: thanks for help with security announcement
• Community
  • 27th Jan: OME-NGFF Consortium Kickoff Meeting Draft Agenda. Will ask for feedback soon
  • Karolinska workshop 12th Feb
  • 23rd Jan - GBI outreach planning with Gleb

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)