2021-09-14

Attending: Will, Jean-Marie, Frances, Khaled, Dom, Josh, Petr, Andreas, Seb, Wilma, Chris, Melissa, Jason, Muhanad, Emil, Kevin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR
- prod101 ongoing. idr0101 and idr0116
  - Both on track for release end of September
NGFF (Josh)
- Zarr logo and trademarking
  - NumFOCUS starting to look into this
  - Will: naming NGFF vv Zarr?
  - Spec says “.zarr” and needed for napari
- ZarrReader: PRs for stabilization open
  - Start to test against our resources
  - Need to define version of jzarr
- Meta-Micro App also looking into K/V pairs
  - e.g. RDF, sparkle, JSON
- EMBL discussions:
  - Fiji use of OME-Zarr (today in gather.town)
  - Spatial-omics (& SMLM) end of Sept. cf. AnnData
    - Linking OME-NGFF with AnnData
  - Collections (with spatial transformations)
- GBI EoE: use-cases
  - How to show utility of conversion and storage of data as NGFF?
  - Jason: Users: “is this the long-term solution?” (link to future of training)
    - limited infrastructure, but keen to participate and benefit from international development and capabilities
Releases
- insight (bugs fixing release source of many QAs)
Glencoe
- webclient Tags tree differences from main PDI tree, e.g. pagination
Community
- Josh: French networking of analysts
- Turku workshop: November

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)

OKR: proposed roadmap for Oct-Dec
- NGFF to date: multiscales, labels, HCS.. what next?
- Spec: collections, rendering settings, key-value pairs…
- OMERO: export and re-import of these
- Community output: e.g. blog post, NGFF call in December