tags: Tuesday —

2026-03-24

Attending: Will, Dom, Andreas, Melissa, Frances, Khaled, Seb, Petr, Jean-Marie, Josh, Chris, Joel,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • EBI Embassy upgrading openStack this week. Aim to release IDR next week
  • Looking into workflow for post-migration to UoD
• OMERO
  • Seb: aiming for OMERO.server release with Bio-Formats 8.5.0 before the Summer. Draft announcement for end of Java 8 support. ZarrReader to omero-zarr-pixel-buffer migration path for users?
  • Bigger release of OMERO coming up
• Bio-Formats (Melissa)
  • 8.5.0 released last week with security fix
  • Planning for next release after OME 2026 Community meeting
• NGFF
  • Will: OME-Zarr labels in OMERO: https://forum.image.sc/t/supporting-ome-zarr-labels-in-omero/119816/8
    • OME team would like to understand Glencoe’s handling of Masks. Meet to discuss
  • Josh:
    • 0.6.dev3 live; roughly targeting .dev4 for OME2026 (Johannes)
      • Two issues being discussed: array-specific transforms and …
    • “capabilities” as a step towards the ngff tools matrix (Chris)
    • Working on concept for “Editorial Board” RFC10 (Josh)
    • https://image.coop/ “went live” in time for the GerBI community meeting last week
• GerBI (Josh)
  • Tiago is working on the combined metadata for FoundingGIDE, e.g. http://tiago.bio.br/gide-crate-combine/ (Showing a poster on this at SWAT)
  • Damien has presented to the LinkML Community Meeting on linkml-java
  • Ramping up on Trends in Microscopy 2027. Co-organizers, workshop ideas, thoughts on the RDM concept welcome.
• Glencoe (Chris)
  • imgData update
  • ABRF meeting next week, OMERO-plus, Zarr etc.
• BioVisionCenter
  • Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup on 31/3/2026: OME-Zarr transformations, see https://www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Upcoming-Events/obpm-march-2026.html
  • Save the date for fall 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon in Zurich: November 2nd - 6th 2026
• Community
  • Harvard online workshop on Friday
  • OME 2026 Community meeting in April

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)