Changes for June 2010

The list of the key changes for the June 2010 major release of the ome-xml data model. This schema release will tie in with the OMERO 4.2 release.

The new major release of the schema has a new namespace and all version numbers are reset to 1. As a major release, any file that validated correctly using the last major release will probably not validate correctly using this new release. Some files that failed to validate before will now be valid. It is important to update any file readers and writers to understand the changes.

The version number of all schema files is now 1.

This schema uses the new namespace:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/[NameSpaceTitle]/2010-06/

For the OME schema

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2010-06/

and the schema file is located at

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2010-06/ome.xsd

General updates

This release represents a collection of general updates to solve problems.

• The release has been brought in step with release of OMERO 4.2.
• Integer types have been made more restrictive.
• A problem with Well Sample Timepoint has been fixed.
• Width and Height have been added to ROI Mask.
• Annotations have been reworked to add new types (‘Term’ and ‘Tag’) and allow cross-linking of all annotations.

ome.xsd

• Integer types have been made more restrictive.

ROI.xsd

• Width has been added to Mask.
• Height has been added to Mask.
• AnnotationRef has been removed from Shape (Shape is no longer directly annotatable, annotations will be moved up to the ROI level).

SA.xsd

• CommentAnnotation has been renamed as StructuredAnnotations.
• TagAnnotation has been added to StructuredAnnotations.
• TermAnnotation has been added to StructuredAnnotations.
• Description has been added to Annotation.
• The list of AnnotationRef has been added to Annotation.
• Namespace in Annotation is now optional.
• The list of AnnotationRef has been removed from ListAnnotation (it is now inherited from the base Annotation).
• ROI:Shape is no longer in the list of annotatable objects.

SPW.xsd

• WellOriginX in Plate has been documented.
• WellOriginY in Plate has been documented.
• NamingConvention in Plate has been documented.
• The type of Timepoint in WellSample is now an ‘xsd:dateTime’.