Josh Moore

> Maybe open an issue at https://github.com/ome/ngff ? Agreed. I think we have something along the lines of "all dtypes for the multiresolutions will be of the same type" and...

@ilan-gold @manzt: we are moving closer to a finalization of https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/112 retroactively for NGFF 0.2-0.4. Do you foresee any blockers for implementing it?

> If understand correctly there is no JPEG/PNG thumbnail in the metadata, and this is something that we will need to generate on the client. Correct.

A heads up that I'll be moving forward with merging the bioformats2raw.layout spec into the v0.4 version within the next week or so.

Ok, so my time estimates were _way_ off (such is life) but we would very much like to get the bioformat2raw.layout into the wild soon. Trevor, how would you like...

Definitely think it's a good entrypoint, but my biggest concern would be what do users who don't know about the other app (or don't realize that their S3 URI points...

Either seems fine. For a redirect, we might want to add explanatory text on the validator page, "this dataset has multiple images. you can open either ..."

@will-moore as well since I tend to "play" vicariously. I do know how to build the code (easiest in docker) if that will work for you, @tischi.

> [@weiji14](https://github.com/weiji14) commented [14 days ago](https://github.com/xarray-contrib/xbatcher/issues/87#issuecomment-1227546152) > but probably need to wait for ... [zarr-developers/zarr-python#934](https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/pull/934) to get merged and new xarray and Zarr releases first. Now available in zarr-python 2.13.0a2...

> Needs a fix in napari-ome-zarr to work (PR to follow)... With the recent community interest (https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/issues/65#issuecomment-1155295470), any thoughts on next steps here, @will-moore?