OME Minimum File Specification

A minimum specification OME file has been defined. This is best viewed as being the minimum required for the display of an image. A sample of the structure is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ome:OME xmlns:bf="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/XMLschemas/BinaryFile/2007-06"
 xmlns:ome="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/XMLschemas/OME/2007-06"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/XMLschemas/OME/2007-06 file:ome.xsd">
    <ome:Image ID="Image:1" Name="Name92" DefaultPixels="Pixels:1">
        <ome:CreationDate>2006-05-04T18:13:51.0Z</ome:CreationDate>
        <ome:Pixels 
             ID="Pixels:1" 
             DimensionOrder="XYZCT" 
             PixelType="int8" 
             BigEndian="false" 
             SizeX="2" 
             SizeY="2" 
             SizeZ="2"
             SizeC="2" 
             SizeT="2">
            <bf:BinData Compression="none" Length="12">ZGVmYXVsdA==</bf:BinData>
         </ome:Pixels>
    </ome:Image>
</ome:OME>

Note: the xsi:schemaLocation line is not finalised and the data in this sample is nonsense.

An alternative valid form would have a TiffData block instead of the bf:BinData block. This would be used in the header of an OME-TIFF file.