[ome-devel] Customizing import process

[Richard Beare]

Hi Everyone,

I'm wondering what you might recommend in the following scenario. We are 
capturing images using image pro. These are being saved as tifs and can 
be imported without any problems by the default tif importer. I'm 
wondering how best to get the meta data imported as well. The options I 
can imagine are

1) mimicing a proprietary format.

2) Writing a meta file associated with each tif and having a custom 
import mechanism (or is there something already supporting this approach)

3) Perhaps an xml file can reference the tif while containing the rest 
of the meta data.

The problem is that the meta data isn't yet associated with the tif 
file. We have a fair bit of freedom about how we might do this (although 
tif tags  seem a bit trick from image pro).

What is your experience with this sort of thing?

Thanks

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