[ome-devel] OMERO on android? + integration + LSIDs

[Josh Moore]

Hi Johan,

On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Johan Henriksson wrote:

>>> Finally: How are the LSIDs for images coming along? Have they actually
>>> adopted?
>> 
>> How do you mean? In having them automatically resolve as was the original
>> intent of the LSID spec? Not at all. We nor anyone we know of is running
>> such a service. Neverthwless we still do use LSIDs as core identifiers.
>> 
> 
> I was rather thinking about how new images obtaining LSIDs, and is it then
> done within OMERO or is it at the microscope? Here you have to excuse my
> very naive knowledge about LSIDs. I see from
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/ome-model/developers/id-and-lsid.htmlthat
> assigning project LSIDs directly could be fairly easy but I don't
> recall that I ever entered an ID when installing OMERO(?)

OMERO internally assigns LSIDs on import and export, allowing you to link data from
one instance back to its source. The mechanisms are in place for supporting third-party
LSIDs but this is not turned on, primarily because no one generates them. If you are
interested in doing this at the scopes, please let us know.


> I was otherwise figuring, if the LSIDs are not widely assigned to images
> right now, and if we want to push LSIDs, maybe one could autogenerate them
> in OMERO as the hash of the original file + timestamp. Or something along
> this style. Resolving the LSIDs somehow appears easier than getting them in
> use (technical problem vs social/political problem)

The current implementation is to use the primary key of the object hashed with a
UUID for the OMERO instance, though that could likely be made flexible.

Cheers,
~Josh

> /Johan
>> 
>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> Johan
>> 
>> Regards,
>> ~Josh.