[ome-devel] OMEIS

[Ilya Goldberg]

On Jul 16, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Ilya Goldberg wrote:

> To all the hardware manufacturers out there:  What do y'all think 
> about putting OMEIS hooks into acquisition hardware?

There is a freebie involved, you know.  If you use OMEIS, you can send 
it an OME XML document containing a reference to a set of pixels stored 
in OMEIS.  What you get back is the same XML document with the Pixels 
reference resolved into a nice OME-compliant compressed Pixels element 
containing all the pixels in XML format.
It works just as well the other way too of course - consuming the 
Pixels elements in OME XML and returning an XML document with a 
reference to the OMEIS pixels.
Its like getting OME XML support essentially for free.  You can do this 
with a library call, on the command line or over HTTP.  How cool is 
that?
And you can use OMEIS completely independently of OME, its database, 
and all the software that comes with it.  Its a completely independent 
light weight and efficient pixel store.  And its written entirely in 
ANSI C, so you can probably even make it work in Windows without too 
much hassle.
It even transparently compresses and inflates the Pixels its storing to 
conserve disk space.  What more can you ask, really?  For it to read 
and write TIFF files? It does that too.

Just something to think about...
-Ilya