Review 1 (update)

Review 1 (update)#

Review authors#

This review was written by the following Glencoe Software team members:

  • Sébastien Besson

  • Melissa Linkert

Summary#

The changes to RFC-2 in https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/250 are sufficient to update our recommendation from “Major changes” to “Accept”.

Our original Concern #1 is addressed by the addition of references to zarr-python and zarr-java, as well as clarifications to the zarr-java API prompted by work on v2/v3 conversion tools. Remaining concerns in our original review are addressed by stronger language around how applications should handle multiple versions and the usage of ‘ome’ as the top-level key for the OME-NGFF metadata in zarr.json.

Recommendation#

Our recommendation is “Accept”. Additionally, as the maintainers of the bioformats2raw and raw2ometiff, we plan to implement Zarr v3 support in these libraries by the end of 2024.

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