Here you will find the current release timeline, the future development ideas and detailed tickets outlining the proposed changes and additions to the development of OME-XML. You are free to create tickets for the team with your suggestions, comments, feature requests and bug reports. The main discussion lists are accessed from the general site's [http://openmicroscopy.org/site/community Getting Involved] page and this is a good place to ask questions.

=== How does it work? ===
Regular meetings are held to review model, discuss additions etc.
Before making any changes, we should come up with a proposal...
Follow a list of changes that need to append before changes can be implemented into the 
currently released schema:
 * Write a document that we can attach to the relevant ticket rather than a long e-mail.
 * Propose time frames for annoucement, implementation.
 * Generate UML diagrams
 * Generate XSLT to transform XML files.
 * Write same files.
 * Write tests.
 * If elements have to be removed/replaced, announcement to the list.

=== Key information ===

The key information on this site at present is:
  * The new major release - see [wiki:ChangesForApril2010]
  * Previous releases:
    * [wiki:ChangesForSeptember2009] (major)
    * [wiki:ChangesForSeptember2008] (major)
    * [wiki:ChangesForFebruary2008] (major)
    * [wiki:ChangesForSeptember2007] (minor)
    * [wiki:ChangesForJune2007] (major)
  * Versioning - see [wiki:VersionInformation]
  * Minimum required data - see [wiki:MinimumSpecification]
  * The required data for a OME Compliant file - see [wiki:CompliantSpecification]
  * IDs and LSIDs in OME - see [wiki:LSID]
  * The replacement filter model - see [wiki:FilterAndFilterSet]
  * The new high content screening support - see [wiki:ScreenPlateWell]
  * Storing tiled images in OME formats - see [wiki:TiledImages]
  * Work in progress - see [wiki:WorkInProgress]
  * Schema Translation - see [wiki:SchemaTranslation]
  * How to see all enumerations within a given schema - see [wiki:EnumTool]

You can find the XML schemas at:
  * [http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/ 2007-06 and newer schemas including current 2010-04]
  * [http://www.openmicroscopy.org/XMLschemas/ legacy 2003 (FC) schemas]

We also provide a validator you can use to check your files:
[http://validator.openmicroscopy.org.uk/]

There is information on the work from 2005-6 that lead up to the current model on the [wiki:History] page.

Lastly, you can check out the entire OME-XML repository with the following command:

 `$ svn co http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/specification ome-xml`