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tags: Tuesday
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# 2024-03-05

Attending: Will, David, Dom, June, Frances, Khaled, Oumou, Muhanad, Kyle, David S, Melissa, Seb, Kevin, Chris, Erin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

## Accepting minutes from [last meeting](https://hackmd.io/team/ome?nav=overview)

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
- prod120: idr0154, idr0155 release later today
- Will: [testing perf of NGFF](https://github.com/IDR/idr-metadata/issues/687) on idr-testing:
- Rendering images is much faster when data is on local disk (~0.4 secs) compared with S3 (~2 secs).
- David looking at reading from s3 directly

- OMERO
- Chris: preparing security blog post

- Bio-Formats
- Melissa: Java 21 tests now running, surprisingly passing!

- NGFF

- GerBI

- Glencoe (Chris)
- OMERO.web items ongoing:
- HCS thumbnail refreshing
- OMERO.figure - no prevention of max-intensity projection
- single sign-on
- Erin: Webknosses chunking discussion blog post https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2024/03/01/data-structure-ome-zarr.html
- poster https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2024/03/04/SLAS.html

- Community
- Indonesia trip in progress!
- OME meeting planning ongoing. Dates TBC
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## AOB

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

## Main Topic

Microscope metrics:
Julio Mateos Langerak, Oumou

- Imaging to check health of the microscope
- Data is often kept in inaccessible locations
- Idea is to use OMERO to store this data
- Now have finance to implement this
- Ease of use, FAIRness etc
- Encourage core facility staff to use OMERO for their own data
- Benefits of training etc
- Packages:
- microscope-metrics: algorithms
- schema: Link-ml
- microscope-metrics-omero: Interface with OMEREO
- Seb: who will want to access the data? Users?
- Julio: yes. Publish QC data alongside experimental data
- Mapping:
- OMERO group -> microscope
- Project -> analysis over time
- Dataset