2021-09-28

Attending: Will, Seb, Josh, Jason, Khaled, June, Frances, Petr, David, Wilma, Kevin, Muhanad, Andreas, Melissa, Chris, Erin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • realeased last week - 2 studies marked for prod102 next release
  • Seb: object store migration is happening. Things are working again. Plan for end of October
• NGFF
  • zarr & outreachy new zarr devs looking to make contributions
  • zarr & js
  • paper focus: figures, online methods, etc.
    • Move table into figures??
    • Resubmit next Monday
    • Seb: zarr example URL (DOI, etc. etc.)
      • zip it, onto Zenodo?
      • Josh: Redirect URL to vizarr?
  • next: roadmap
    • Start on Monday
    • see items on standup…
• Releases
  • OMERO.web
    • security release 14/10
    • rc1 pushed on Friday. image.sc edited
    • rc1 allows devs to test e.g. jQuery update first
    • website to be updated with banner when PR is merged
• Glencoe
  • Zarr jpeg2000 work out pypi zarr-jpeg2k
  • codecs well supported on various platforms
  • Chris - need to be more explicit about lossy vv lossless
  • Dimension orders switched tzyxc to pass channel as interleaved array
  • Josh: codec registry
  • codec metadata to specify how 3D data is handled in 2D codecs: https://github.com/d-v-b/zarr-jpeg/pull/1
  • Chris: differences in the underlying library may lead to several implementations
  • Kevin: wrapping metadata APIs in omero-web to allow multiple sources of data: microservices
    • various legacy JCB code could be cleaned up
  • Melissa: Dicom PR soon (big)
• Community
  • AICSImageIO now supporting BioFormats for python
    • GPL vv BSD
  • Petr: Karolinska planning
  • Spatial Omics Hackathon https://forum.image.sc/t/ome-ngff-spatial-omics-hackathon/57337

AOB

• OSARs/OKRs
• Philips et al Review– OK to go?

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)