2021-05-18

Attending: Will, Petr, David, Dom, Seb, Frances, Josh, Jason, June, Andreas, Khaled, Melissa, Jean-Marie, Kevin, Chris, Erin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR
- Next release: 1 study idr0109. Final issues in progress. Release before OME meeting
- Release HPA run 10 after meeting
- Latest release seems to fix stability issues
NGFF
- Review responses: dealing with HDF5, differing views
  - initial response prepared
- Application for EOSS going in tomorrow
- 0.3 (PR46): “ready to merge” (with xarray support)
  - Feedback appreciated
  - Only needs dimension naming for xarray support
- ZarrReader PR is green; testing in ome_zarr_test_suite.
  - Upcoming rename in next release OmeZarrReader
- OME-XML metadata (cf. QUAREP-LiMi)
  - Use OME-XML (from BF2raw) as source of metadata for ome-zarr, prior to JSON metadata
Releases
- Upcoming:
  - OMERO.web release
  - OMERO.figure ahead of the workshop
- CLA contributor licence agreement
  - roll out to BioFormats (in progress, testing), then OMERO
  - PRs from external users - they will need to sign CLA
Glencoe
- bf2raw release this week or next
- Need to keep lots of moving targets in sync - evolving formats
- PRs coming for omero-web
- User testing scenarios request
OME2021
- Registration
- over 100 registrations
- few videos already submitted
- workshop runs ongoing
- Seb: volunteers needed for testing zoom etc. Probably next week.
Community
- DataLad.org - neuro community. Using git-annex to store large files
- SEEK - e-science UK & Germany. Like Zenodo. DOIs, metadata, search.
- openBIS - integrated ELNs, sample management etc.
- Complete system eg. openBIS -> OMERO -> SEEK workflow

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)