<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 4:25 PM Nico Stuurman <<a href="mailto:nico.stuurman@ucsf.edu">nico.stuurman@ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div><br></div></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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"How you save metadata doesn't matter much when µManager 1.4 (don't
know about 2.0) doesn't do a very good job of exporting enough types
of metadata (look at Zeiss ->OME in comparison). This is due to
being device centric, and each device determines how it wants to
label information. We should think about label consistency with
camera, filters, shutters, etc. It will make OMEs job easier and
other software much easier." <br>
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Saying it in another way: Micro-Manager devices adapters have a lot
of freedom to decide how to name things. Moving towards using pure
OME xml dictates loss of that freedom and a huge amount of work to
rewrite device adapters. This is independent of performance issues
writing OME xml that would also need to be addressed.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Nico<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I agree with everything you wrote. </div><div><br></div><div>I was thinking of something simpler. Instead of changing every device adapter which would be unrealistic, just expand the "core" read-only attributes to include more metrics.</div><div><br></div><div>It would then be up to the device adapters to update those "core" read-only attributes if they wanted. It wouldn't be mandatory, but optional. </div><div><br></div><div>Current Objective</div><div>Current Emission Filter</div><div>Current Excitation Filter</div><div>Current Dichroic Filter</div><div>Current Light Source</div><div>Etc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This wouldn't have to be compatible with OME xml. Just throwing out an idea...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Karl</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"></div>
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