[ome-devel] Customizing import process

[Kevin W Eliceiri]

Hi Richard,

We have done some programming with ImagePro 4.5 and it is possible to
customize the saving options with its Software development kit
(http://www.mediacy.com/sdkpg.htm). We used this to create custom
acquisition windows and I think it can be used to write additional
metadata to the .tiff header. ImagePro 5 has a new SDK out, so if you
haven't started programming in 4.5 I would use this. The ImagePro
support people should be able to help you with writing custom fields to
the tiff file or just dumping to a custom companion text file that could
be parsed by the OME importer.

Our group is working on a JAVA OME XML writer that can be interfaced to
acquisition programs to write a fully compliant OME XML file. We plan on
making this available when finished in about a month. This would allow
you to write directly to OME XML from ImagePro (you would need to write
a native library in ImagePro using the SDK to interface with the XML
writer).

Best regards,
kevin

Kevin W. Eliceiri
Assistant Director
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
http://www.loci.wisc.edu
Room 271 Animal Sciences
1675 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Beare <Richard.Beare at csiro.au>
Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004 11:45 pm
Subject: [ome-devel] Customizing import process

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Richard Beare, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
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