tags: Tuesday —

2026-07-21

Attending: Frances, J-M, Chris, Melissa, Joel, Tom, Andreas, Petr, Kyle, Kevin, Erin, Johannes

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- Working on conversion to OME.zarr and RO-crate metadata export
- Looking at new study when we are ready with the new pipeline.
OMERO
- OMERO.web: N/A
- Petr: investigating test failures related to pyramid generation in CI following migration
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Nothing to report
NGFF (Johannes)
- 0.6rc0 No more metadata changes
- Tom: working to extract jpeg tiles, library in C (own library). Tested with libjpeg and OpenSlide.
  - what to do to integrate with existing ecosystem?
    - Melissa:
      - to be discussed at next Formats meetings (27/07 2pm UK)
      - check existing feature in Bio-Formats
    - Tom: Discussion on Zulip Rechunk jpeg-based formats in zarr
    - Chris: Discussed for Dicom but nothing in place yet
    - Melissa: issues with Codec
GerBI
- Johannes: work on descriptive to extend OME.zarr in strong type language. Current evalutaiton in Rust
Glencoe
- Kevin: fixing issues in zarr-java. work on zarr-pixes-buffer
- Erin: submitting funding application (OS4LS).
BioVisionCenter
- Work on OME-NGFF RFC-8 implementation prototypes by Lorenzo
- submitted funding application (OS4LS)
Community
- Johannes: GerBI planning event(s) between dev/experts and imaging facilities.
- Joel: more info soon on image.sc for upcoming online Open Bioimaging Practices Meeting focusing on OME-Zarr viewers. August 24/08, 4pm CEST

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)