Contributing
Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the OME-Zarr specification!
We welcome contributions from anyone.
Below you find links and guidelines on how to contribute to specific parts of the NGFF project.
Authorship
NGFF is a collective and community-driven effort, and we welcome contributions from anyone.
Acknowledgement of contributions is important to us,
and we provide ways to to credit contributors for their work in different places of the NGFF ecosystem.
For auhorship of the specification itself,
a list of authors is maintained in the authors.yml file in the ngff-spec repository.
The list of authors in this file is organized in two tiers:
First category: Those who have contributed to the development of the spec through the RFC process
in the form of RFC authorship, reviewing, commenting or editorial work.
Second category: Those who have contributed in any form to the development of the specification under the ngff-spec repository.
This includes, but not limited to, all contributions to the specification text, schemas, examples or other content in the ngff-spec repository.
Upon release of a new version, the list of authors in the authors.yml file will be synced to a citeable DOI via Zenodo,
which can be used for citation of the specification in publications and other works.
To ensure the visibility of all contributions to the broader ecosystem that are not directly related to specification development,
a list of contributors is maintained in the ome-zarr-acknowledgements repository,
which is displayed here.
Any contribution to the NGFF ecosystem can be acknowledged in this repository, including but not limited to
contribution to spec development
Maintenance of software implementations of ome-zarr
Development of tools and utilities for working with ome-zarr
Development of documentation and educational materials for ome-zarr
Organization of or participation in events and workshops related to ome-zarr
Any other contribution that has an impact on the development and adoption of ome-zarr