OME-Zarr Ambassador Toolkit

OME-Zarr Ambassador Toolkit#

This section aims to provide all the resources needed to give talks about OME-Zarr for a varied range of audiences.

Slides#

  • Ambassador Toolkit slides. A collection of 100+ slides on OME-Zarr under CC-BY license that can be used to assemble presentations.

Talking points#

  1. Performance

    • Parallel reads/writes

    • benchmarking on paper against OME-Tiff/HDF5

    • lazy loading: data is only transferred/loaded when needed by default

  2. Suited to current research data

    • multidimensional by nature, just like imaging data is

    • URL-addressable: easy to share and access from anywhere

    • multi-scale: allows operating over data at multiple different resolution levels

  3. Cloud-friendliness

    • optimized for high latency/high bandwidth

    • object storage-friendly

    • great at streaming data; never download a whole dataset to view a part of it again!

  4. Community-developed

    • developed from the ground up to address modern infrastructure issues

    • wide adoption thanks to community consensus building

    • large community of developers and users

    • consistent metadata

  5. AI-ready

    • well-suited to large parallel workflows

    • chunked format works well with ML workflows

    • object storage focus fits modern processing tasks

FAQs#

See the FAQ section.

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