RFC-3: Review 1#
Conflicts of interest#
Glencoe Software is involved in a partnership with the Image Cooperative and other entities to deliver an alpha version of OME-Zarr 1.0 - see https://image.coop/blog/posts/2026/04/21/announcing-biohub-contract/ and https://forum.image.sc/t/our-proposed-roadmap-to-ome-zarr-1-0/121995 for more details.
Summary#
On behalf of the Glencoe Software team (and in particular Sébastien Besson and Melissa Linkert), the current state of RFC-3 should be accepted.
We initially had some concerns about the scope and real-world usability of this RFC. Updates to the text of RFC-3 and discussions within the community have alleviated these concerns.
We expect that RFC-3 is also a logical continuation of the 6, 7, and 8 dimension concept in the OME model, also referred to as “modulo” dimensions. This provides several concrete use cases in FLIM and other domains, since Bio-Formats already recognizes modulo dimensions in most relevant proprietary file formats.
Recommendation#
Our recommendation is “Accept”. Additionally, as the maintainers of bioformats2raw and raw2ometiff, we are currently implementing support for both writing and reading data that is compliant with this RFC.