Davis Bennett

> The Dataset organization enables simply and direct identification of volumes where pixels correspond. Yes, this storage layout is surely convenient where sampling grids match, but I can only see...

The changes proposed in this PR (storing scale levels in separate groups) opens up two possibilities: * We can put multiple images that happen to have the same coordinates in...

> Note that xarray can save and load Dataset's with _and without_ coordinate arrays. They are not required. Coordinate arrays _are_ required if you want xarray to know about the...

> Also, coordinate arrays are not required by all use cases in Xarray. As a frequent xarray user, I'm a little skeptical of this claim. Yes, technically you can have...

> Just realizing that one of the main points of OME.Zarr is that you can write the voxel values in a distributed manner, thus one may not know valueRangeMin/Max. I...

> I'm a bit more hesitant about saying generally that arrays and groups can't be at the same level. My preference would be to have metadata that clearly defines the...

> Guess I think of zarr groups as being more dictionary like than list like which may explain some of our differing opinion. No, you're right, groups are definitely more...

@tischi I haven't come to a decision for display settings that I feel super comfortable with yet. At the moment I don't put the display settings in n5 metadata --...

@joshmoore yes there's a lot of overlap :) Switching to the omero format is on my to-do list actually, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. It would also...

To my knowledge Neuroglancer does not use dataset metadata directly, but the developer (@jbms, who probably needs to be added to this conversation to weigh in) is pretty responsive and...