2022-01-25

Attending: Will, Seb, Josh, Frances, Dom, David, June, Kevin, Khaled, Wilma, Andreas, Chris, Erin, Jason, David Stirling, Emil

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR:
- new, challenging datasets in progress. Needing conversion etc. Currently in testing
- Working on revamp of IDR website. Add videos etc.
NGFF
- OKR status
  - upcoming OME-NGFF community call
  - learning curve but lots of progress
    - 0.4 spec (axes + HCS) implementations & samples
    - draft rendering specification
    - validation, schemas
- Next steps
  - critical need for support OME-NGFF in OMERO
  - 4 or 5 datasets in IDR need this
  - Blockers (Josh):
    - capturing metadata from XML in Zarr
    - Could do “metadata lite/weak”
  - Glencoe solutions, use in IDR?
  - Jason: target is to make OME-NGFF as well-supported as OME-TIFF
  - Josh: OME-NGFF labels aren’t supported in OMERO
  - Chris: Use OMERO-4-like strategy. OMERO knows about structure of data.
  - Josh - to miss this meeting next week, please record
Glencoe
- auth for s3
- more to come
Community
- Global BioImaging workshops today/tomorrow
- Jason community meeting: when, how (in person?)
  - on-line meeting has more diversity
  - but, spending time with community is good
  - delay until September? More time to see how Covid situation develops etc.
  - Josh: hybrid meeting? Jason: hard to do

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)