For decades, the sharing of large N-dimensional datasets has posed issues across multiple domains. Interactively accessing terabyte-scale data has previously required significant server resources to properly prepare cropped or down-sampled representations on the fly. Now, a cloud-native chunked format easing this burden has been adopted in the bioimaging domain for standardization. The format — Zarr — is potentially of interest for other consortia and sections of NFDI.
![[CORDI 2023] Zarr: A Cloud-Optimized Storage for Interactive Access of Large Arrays](/_next/image/?url=%2Fimages%2Ft02.png&w=1920&q=75)
