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title: '2022-08-24: OME-NGFF + SOMA meeting'
tags: [' scverse', meeting, ' spatial', ' cellxgene', ' SOMA']

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# 2022-08-24: OME-NGFF + SOMA meeting 

*Attendees:* Ambrose Carr, Luca Marconato, Kevin Yamauchi, Isaac Virshup, Giovanni Palla

## Agenda

* Present projects
    * OME-NGFF/ SpatialData
    * SOMA
* Questions
    - where in the data stack does SOMA live? Will CZI be storing all data?
        - Generation of raw data
        - 
    - Is it possible to point the SOMA query engine to outside data sources?
        - Yes, but they will have a host copy
        - Their hosted – for holding standardized schemas
    - does SOMA have a plan for image data, polygons, points, etc.?
    - Is there is a pathway for interoperatiblity (what "interoperability" means depends on the answer to the previous questions)?
    - [ac] What's the point of intersection between OME-NGFF and SOMA? `accumulate`? 
* Problems/ overlaps

## Notes

* Luca presents OME-NGFF
    * Qs:
        * Mask first, then polygons? (yes)
        * Operations
* Queries on this data
    * does it need to live on czi cloud
        * sets of variables need merging
        * Controlled set of variable on CZI cloud makes this easier
    * tile shapes
    * Performance work
* SOMA model
    * There is an composition of arrow buffers which maps to a tiledb object
    * So other sources could be supported