[Neuroimaging] Planning for data formats - upcoming journal club

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 4:35 PM Thomas Pengo via Neuroimaging
<neuroimaging at python.org> wrote:
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> Dear all
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> I am new to writing to this list but I simply wanted to bring a couple of pointers to related efforts in microscopy. Apologies if this is redundant.
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> Open Microscopy Environment. They started with a data model, in XML. The data model covers data and metadata so initially you could write data and metadata in pure XML. However, a more practical solution involved TIFF with a metadata encoded jn XML embedded in the headers. Now, and this is the interesting part, a larger consortium (and here is the interesting part) is working on a Next Generation File Format, that does not use HDF5 due to parallel read/write problems, but Zarr. My point being that choosing HDF5 now might has some implications on data access down the road.
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> The more the communities connect the more we can benefit from each other’s previous work.
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> https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/latest/
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> https://forum.image.sc/tag/ome-ngff
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> https://quarep.org/working-groups/wg-7-metadata/

Thanks - these are strikingly relevant ...

Cheers,

Matthew