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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial">For the release of OMERO 5.3.0, </font></span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial">we are intending to change the way Image and Plate name are handled in the importer.</font></span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial">Currently, when images and plates are imported into OMERO 5.0.0+, unless a name is explicitly chosen, names are set by default to the filename identified by Bio-Formats and any name
metadata is ignored. For images that are part of a multi-image fileset (MIF), the series number is used as part of the name in addition to the filename in order to distinguish between individual images.</font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">The reason we are changing it is that </span><span style="line-height: 1.38;"> in order to preserve plate and image names encoded within metadata, users are required to perform
their own metadata extraction. When importing a large number of plates, this effectively means that users must write scripts in order to import their data correctly, making them do the work Bio-Formats could be handling for them. This is also an issue for
images, for example in digital pathology, where each image might have a self-describing name which is effectively lost on import with the current behaviour.</span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12px;">In OMERO 5.3.0, we propose to use <span style="line-height: 1.38;">name metadata provided by Bio-Formats unless the user has specifically overridden it or it isn’t available, in which case it returns to the current
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.38; font-size: 12px;">In practice, this means that if you have developed an import workflow based on the current behaviour, you will need to adjust it. However, from 5.3.0, OMERO will respect your name metadata
and hopefully simplify import for plates and multi-image filesets going forward.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.38; font-size: 12px;">For more details about tickets, code changes etc. please have a look at </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px;" id="docs-internal-guid-c4230bf7-1cdd-222f-0b86-30308ba6d5b6"><a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/design/issues/57">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/design/issues/57</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px;">Thanks</span></p>
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