OME-XML Major Version Release

The Open Microscopy Environment is pleased to announce a major update to the OME-XML schema files. These files provide the authoritative description of the OME Data Model.

This June 2011 release is a major (breaking) version that is NOT backwardly compatible with files created for the June 2010 release.

As this is a major release it makes use of a new namespace: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2011-06/

Full details of the changes made can be found at http://www.ome-xml.org/wiki/ChangesForJune2011

Key features with this release include:

• Release in step with release of OMERO 4.3
• The creation of the Metadata Only Companion OME-XML and Binary Only OME-TIFF files
• A creator attribute has been added for OME-XML & OME-TIFF
• ROI font enums have been updated.
• The OTF (optical transfer function), Polyline and Path are DEPRECATED

An XSLT transform from June 2010 to June 2011 is available here: http://git.openmicroscopy.org/src/develop/components/specification/Xslt/

Thank you to everyone who provided input on these changes. We welcome your suggestions for further improvements. Comments can be emailed to us or left on our forums: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/