Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

One thing that would likely be important for concatenation is the ability to specify "cropping" and other coordinate transforms -- for that the "index transform" concept in tensorstore may be...

@thewtex If I understand correctly, you are proposing that the "manifest", in addition to mapping individual keys to URLs, could also map key prefixes (or more generally, arbitrary key ranges)...

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. A data type extension just means adding support to the spec or implementation for a new data type. It is referenced in...

datetime hasn't been standardized so it is kind of hypothetical at this point. But the intent of configuration is to allow parameterized data types without having to encode all of...

Is the idea that `char` will be a fixed-length string, and you would then use a configuration option to indicate the length in bytes, e.g. `"data_type": {"name": "char", "configuration": {"length":...

See also https://github.com/zarr-developers/zeps/pull/47 regarding a variable-length string proposal.

> No, char will be an 8-bit unsigned integer whose purpose is to hold a single character in some encoding, typically ASCII or ISO-LATIN-8859, or such. I do not want...

I think there is in general a question as to what should go into the data type configuration and what should go into a separate attribute to indicate "units". For...

If the data type has no configuration options, then it can be specified as a plain string, `{"data_type": "float64", ...}`. If the data type has configuration options, like `{"data_type": {"name":...

> An alternative is to reify the type and declare it once in, say the zarr.info of a group, and then allow arrays to reference it by name with out...