Subject:        [apildip] Minutes of June 24, 2005 ldip conference call
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The June 24, 2005 ldip conference call was held 1:00 PM Eastern time.

Attending were:
Ul Balis
Thomas Barr
Bruce Beckwith
Jeffrey A. Beckstead
Jules Berman
Alton Floyd
Bruce Friedman
Fernando U. Garcia
Eric Goodall
Alan Kalvin
Robert Leif
Andy Lowe
Tony Pan
Mathew Hreljac (for John Stinson)
Michael Szymanski
Darren Treanor
Kemp Watson
Ron Xiao
Jack Zeineh
Ilya Goldberg (guest speaker)

The call was largely devoted to Ul Balis' discussion of OME (open microscopy
environment) and the possibility of uniting the OME and the LDIP efforts.

Basically, there were two pathways discussed for OME integration with LDIP.

The first would involve developing a mechanism whereby LDIP enhancements to
OME would be incorporated into OME, so that the final effort is a shared
specification with OME and LDIP contributions.  This would require working
closely with the OME members and developing a plan for sharing credit for
the resulting specification.

The second would involve using the existing OME .xsd and simply adding an
LDIP layer to suit our needs.  This would involve very little cooperation
between the OME group and the LDIP group but would probably require some
sort of memorandum between the two groups indicating our intentions and
their acceptance of the plan and resolving any issues of intellectual
property or credit that might result.

Alternately, we could just start from scratch and do it all our own way,
allowing imagers to choose OME, LDIP or some other other specification for
their image files.

No decision was made.  The discussion will resume at the next LDIP call on
July 29, at 1:00 PM Eastern.

Everyone was urged to visit the OME (Open Microscopy Environment) website:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/

Ilya Goldberg indicated that all members of LDIP could join the OME
listserver (instructions for joining are available at their site).

- Jules