Josh Moore

> NB: I wonder if we want to add a note somewhere that opening Plates in vizarr often doesn't work because of the trailing `/0` as it's expecting `bioformats2raw` format....

Filed https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/274 as a follow-up

Hi Tobias. You've created a plain Zarr fileset rather than an OME-Zarr one and therefore it's missing the metadata and layout needed by MoBIE and other NGFF tools.

@jburel, the build of course won't pass until this is merged. If you have any suggestions, let me know. Otherwise, I'd say let's get this in and try tagging as...

> [jni](https://github.com/jni) commented [4 minutes ago](https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/239#issuecomment-2122786266) > I asked @joshmoore whether whimsy was allowed and he said yes, hence the title. For comparison, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549 ("[IP over Avian Carriers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers)")

> [tlambert03](https://github.com/tlambert03) commented [1 minute ago](https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/239#issuecomment-2122795327) > I have personally experienced a number of use cases and applications where the current restrictions have led me to delay adopting ngff in...

A few quick clarifications, @jni: * can we change @d-v-b's role to "spec updates"? In my mind, the "implementation" work will require (if necessary) changes to the implementations themselves whereas...

> All tags can be accessed via the [initialized DICOM reader](https://github.com/ome/bioformats/blob/develop/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/DicomReader.java#L1936), though, which may be a more reliable way to compare metadata across files. Thanks, @melissalinkert. Outside the scope of...

Happy to see a fix & release here, but I agree that this is surprising to find in this repo.

> @will-moore just to clarify, you only need the changes from ome/napari-ome-zarr#112, right? This can be closed? Will is away for a couple of weeks but I asked him this...