Oliver Ruebel

> Are there any active branches looking into Zarr? @jmdelahanty PR https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/98 on HDMF implements a Zarr backend and this https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/pull/1018 is the corresponding PR on PyNWB to setup the...

@mavaylon1 it would be helpful to run this through a profiler to see where the time is being spent. I assume the issue is likely that HDMF has to construct...

@sneakers-the-rat thanks for describing your experience with the documentation and suggestions for improvements. Creating good documentation is hard and we continuously strive to make our documentation better. Thank you also...

> I was wondering if DataChunkIterator would also help with input from big nwb files DataChunkIterator is designed for write. Onr read, large datasets are returned as ``h5py.Dataset`` objects which...

BTW, eliminating nested definitions in the schema should not change it in an incompatible way as it typically just means placing the type definitions at the top level and then...

I would need to take a closer look, but I don't think ``TimeSeries`` has a ``__getitem__`` function defined right now. If so, then an alternate solution would be to implement...

> . If you'll be loading timestamps as well then it would make sense also load the `control` values as well if they are defined Good point. I think maybe...

> Or maybe define the method with some `kwargs` such as I agree that some form of configurability will be required to define which fields to use and that extending...

See also #230 . Ultimately this may or may not be relevant, but it looks like Zarr might be similar enough to h5py that one could drop it in to...

@kdharris101 also suggested ALF https://github.com/cortex-lab/alf2neuroscope#what-is-alf as a relevant standard for structuring storage of flat binary files. Here also a related issue ticket on the nwb-schema repo: https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwb-schema/issues/57