2021-01-05

Attending: Will, Frances, June, David, Simon, Dominik, Josh, Jean-Marie, Kevin, Erin, Melissa, Jason, Wilma, Emil, Chris

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR:
- meeting this am - lots of Datasets
- Next release: HPA run 9 and one other study
- Jason: call with editorial board of E-life. Been in contact with other journals, PLOS… Aim to improve relationship with journals. Thursday 4pm.
NGFF
- Misc news.
  - pangeo-forge could be useful
    - recipe for Dataset - yml files to describe pipeline etc
    - Useful for IDR data -> OME-Zarr
  - zarr_implementations (incl. rust but not js or jzarr).
    - We should contribute to this repo
    - e.g. regular testing of zarr js
- Focus
  - light-sheet (3D) - e.g. idr0101. 3D chunking
  - high-level commentary on ngff work
    - Jason: Draft in progress, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1loIsB036iGqxgCnUzCWx7bErv-gQvKPfHvVVbXoc36M/edit
    - Commentary - not full paper.
    - Authored by OME and Glencoe, potentially
- Misc
  - Chris - jzarr depend on netCDF core
    - Issues in BF with update from old version of netCDF
Releases
- JM: Done with github Actions, so now in good shape for releases.
- Josh: looking at deployment of ansible roles
SA
Glencoe
- jzarr work (see above)
- Also done with migration to github actions.
Community
- Two workshops coming up

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)