2021-06-22

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Seb)
  • prod98: HPA run 10. Issues with a few images that are a different size.
  • Deployment updates
  • Submitters asking for datasets to be released to coincide with publications
  • Dom: idr0111 just completed importing
  • Migration of IDR, s3 etc testing needed before production
  • Jason: FIB SEM images, complete HeLa cell (https://openorganelle.org). 3D ngff viewers
• NGFF
  • Involvement from the EOSC-Future folks in EMBL Heidelberg (COVID-focus ; largely infrastructure) - Connect to IDR with Galaxy - idr0094 and others. Compare OMERO api with zarr performance.
  • Various (slow) motion on the zarr-python front, but still a lingering dimension_separator debate.
  • After ELMI this week, getting back to 3D work and ramping up the metadata work. Q: work on using OME-XML in zarr for Metadata (already in use by bioformats2raw) OR go for JSON?
• Releases
  • insight 5.5.19/omero-gateway 5.5.6 out: fix the issue with special characters in password
    • Jason: announcement, on website etc.
    • Chris: many don’t use image.sc
    • Josh: use image.sc for mailing list?
    • Twitter @openmicroscopy has nearly 3k followers
    • Petr: Insight vs Server users are different
  • Bio-Formats 6.7.0
• Glencoe
  • omero-web scalability issues
  • client doing more with larger datasets, but need to keep server perf in mind
  • Josh: ship micro-service in main-line? Want to do this at some point
• OME2021 (Josh)
  • Website updated with links
  • Collecting materials, slides etc.
  • Follow-ups, thanks
  • Removing from template
• Community
  • ELMI2021: RDM discussions

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)