tags: Tuesday —

2026-03-03

Attending: Will, Dom, Johannes, Damien, Joel, Josh, Jean-Marie, Seb, Chris, Melissa, Kevin, Frances, Petr, Khaled, Erin, Tiago,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- BioFile Finder released in IDR last week.
- decommissioned prod130
- spinning-up new machines for idr-next
- Ongoing migration of IDR to UoD: current focus is to get omero-zarr-pixel-buffer.
- 0.6.0 update to 0.6.1 has coincided with failure to handle images in idr0173
OMERO (Seb)
- not much to report for OMERO
- OMERO.insight package has been broken for over a year. Seb about 80% done in fixing this.
  - Then code-signi/ng etc before we can release
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- 8.5.0 release planned for week of March 16th.
NGFF (Josh)
- Community call: Vol-E, RFC-9, RFC-3
- Currently working on a proposal for the Editorial Board
- Finishing 0.6.dev3, one last comment (sharpening text)
  - One remaining issue before tagging (array coordinate systems)
- FYI: https://forum.image.sc/t/zarr-net-first-release-native-net-library-for-reading-writing-zarr-microscopy-data/119479/4
GerBI (Josh)
- linkml-java 0.1.0 :tada:
- IDR RO-Crates FoundingGIDE
  - https://github.com/IDR/idr-metadata/issues/721, etc.
- zarr_n5 Rust - n5 as an extension of zarr
- Zarr.NET announcement and discussion
Glencoe
- meeting invites disappeared?
BioVisionCenter
- MesoSPIM presentation last week. Happy users of OME-Zarr
Community
- EMBL microscopy
- Harvard on-line outreach
- OME 2026: registration closed - Petr is registered but many are not!

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)