Joe Hamman

I like the draft ZEP @TomAugspurger. Thanks for putting it together. As far as I understand, the current spec does not provide a way to add arbitrary extensions to a...

> In the sense that that's just not spelled out anywhere as a thing that can be done? Or that adding additional keys might break things? I don't think we...

I don't recall how we got there but [we've used](https://github.com/intake/intake-stac/blob/88989db637a909bd3f43efb18dfabbf53bd239e4/intake_stac/catalog.py#L42) `application/vnd+zarr` in the past.

> @jhamman, you use this for each .zgroup, .zarray and .zattrs file? Conceivably these could also have a prominent "json" in the mimetype. So, we're using `application/vnd+zarr` as the [asset...

Xarray has recently (https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1528) developed a [Zarr backend](http://xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/io.html#zarr) for reading and writing datasets to local and remote stores. In the Xarray use case, we hope to use Zarr to interface...

@NickMortimer - if there are some xarray/zarr specific issues that would help your use case, I think we'd be keen to engage on the xarray issue tracker.

We're using Zarr for a new visualization application, rending chunks of data directly from cloud object store using WebGL and Mapbox. A full writeup of our approach is here: https://carbonplan.org/blog/maps-library-release

Was a white background version of the the zarr logo ever produced? @meganfitzsimons - if you have the purple background design files, I can take a swing at inverting the...

> Same for zarr-js > > It supports reading arrays with zlib compression or no compression and C order little endian arrays. > > https://github.com/freeman-lab/zarr-js#zarr-js This is correct. I chatted...

I favor keeping discussions around for zarr-python. I find that usage questions are much easier to manage there and like having the ability to transfer open-ended issues to discussions as...