License for test files

[p-j-smith]

Hi,

Thanks for creating aicsimageio and napari-aicsimageio!

We're developing a workshop on microscopy that will most likely use napari and napari-aicsimageio. I've seen that you have some test data stored in an s3 bucket and I'm wondering whether you have a license for usage of the data? We would potentially like to use some of the data as part of the workshop to show how napari-aicsimageio can be used to view image metadata.

Thanks!

[toloudis]

Hello! Thanks for the question and sorry for the delayed reply.

I think we would have some concerns about your using our test data bucket for demonstrating usage of aicsimageio. We don't really have solid documentation, apart from the unit test code itself, about which files are expected to be good, and which are error cases. They may well contain garbage, and the contents of the bucket are not necessarily considered reliably stable across aicsimageio releases.
Please consider the files in the test bucket to have the same license as aicsimageio itself.

I think you would have a better experience if you find a public hosted image repository, or download images from our public datasets:

• Cell Feature Explorer: https://cfe.allencell.org
• Quilt: https://open.quiltdata.com/b/allencell/packages/
  • example: https://open.quiltdata.com/b/allencell/packages/aics/hipsc_single_cell_image_dataset
• Other public image repositories, for example: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive/

If you'd like to use files from Cell Feature Explorer or Quilt, we can provide a little more detail on how to get to individual files. (Hopefully clicking through the websites mentioned will get you most of the way there.)

[p-j-smith]

Thank you so much for the list of resources! I'll take a look and let you know if I have any issues getting individual files