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Stacked on #611, which adds the 0.9.dev1 version and its metadata model. Merge that one first.

The 0.9.dev1 release published on 2026-08-25 carries the JSON Schemas that 0.9 lacked, so the reader no longer refuses validate=True at that version. The 20 schemas of the tag are vendored under spec/0.9, which is where _schemas_dir already sends "0.9.dev1": it resolves a prerelease string to its base version, as it does for "0.6rc0".

axis_orientation.schema is the one file with no counterpart at 0.6. It constrains an orientation type to ["anatomical"] and its value to the 24 vocabulary entries.

The v0.6 delegate runs with validate=False afterwards, since it would otherwise measure a 0.9 document against the 0.6 schemas.

Two doc claims are removed with it: docs/cli.md and docs/spec_features.md both said OME publishes no JSON Schema for the version, which stopped being true with the release.

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  • New Features
    • Added comprehensive OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1 schemas for metadata, images, labels, plates, wells, coordinate systems, axes, and transformations.
    • Added optional validation for 0.9.dev1 metadata.
    • Added strict schema variants for supported NGFF structures.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected validation behavior for axis rules and axis-name uniqueness.
  • Documentation
    • Updated CLI, specification, and validation documentation for 0.9.dev1 schema support and validation behavior.

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OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1 schemas were added and connected to metadata validation. The reader now validates requested 0.9.dev1 metadata, tests cover valid and invalid stores, and documentation describes the new behavior.

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OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1 validation

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Schema primitives
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/_version.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/axes.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/axis_orientation.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/coordinate_systems.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/coordinate_transformations.schema
Added version, axes, orientation, coordinate-system, and coordinate-transformation schemas for OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1.
Metadata schemas
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/bf2raw.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/label.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/ome.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/ome_zarr.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/plate.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/scene.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/well.schema, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/strict_*.schema
Added base and strict metadata schemas for raw, image, label, OME, root, plate, scene, and well documents.
Validation integration and documentation
py/ngff_zarr/v09/zarr_metadata.py, py/test/test_v09_metadata.py, docs/cli.md, docs/spec_features.md, docs/validation/api.md
Enabled requested 0.9.dev1 validation, added success and failure tests, and documented schema validation and axis-rule behavior.

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The PR enables validation for 0.9.dev1 documents, but validate=True currently rejects metadata shapes the reader accepts, and duplicate acquisition IDs can remain ambiguous. The schema also permits empty series arrays unintentionally. These concrete validation gaps should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant ZarrStore
  participant Metadata
  participant validate_ngff
  participant BundledSchemas
  ZarrStore->>Metadata: read metadata with validation enabled
  Metadata->>validate_ngff: validate using ome.version or 0.9.dev1
  validate_ngff->>BundledSchemas: load the matching schema
  BundledSchemas-->>validate_ngff: return validation result
  validate_ngff-->>Metadata: return success or ValidationError
  Metadata-->>ZarrStore: continue parsing or reject metadata
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The page said the axis rules are inert for the versions that adopt the
RFC-3 axis model. axis-names-unique is not among them: RFC-3 states it
and no released schema carries it, so it applies at every version. Only
the count, type and order rules stand down.
The 0.9.dev1 release publishes the JSON Schemas that 0.9 lacked, so the
reader no longer refuses validate=True. The 20 schemas of the tag are
vendored under spec/0.9, which is where _schemas_dir sends "0.9.dev1"
already: it resolves a prerelease string to its base version, as it does
for "0.6rc0".

axis_orientation.schema is the one file with no counterpart at 0.6.

The v0.6 delegate runs with validate=False afterwards, since it would
otherwise measure a 0.9 document against the 0.6 schemas.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/coordinate_transformations.schema`:
- Around line 363-376: Update the descriptions for inputAxes and outputAxes to
identify their values as axis indices, using “indices” instead of “names”;
preserve their existing numeric item types and schema structure.

In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema`:
- Line 116: Correct the user-facing description text in the image schema from “a
ingle scale” to “a single scale,” preserving the rest of the description
unchanged.
- Around line 164-210: Update the v0.9 metadata schema and
Metadata._from_zarr_attrs so flat-axes metadata follows the same validation path
as normalized metadata: add a schema alternative accepting the flat axes shape,
or normalize axes before schema validation. Ensure validate=True accepts the
same metadata that validate=False currently accepts while preserving
coordinateSystems validation for the existing shape.

In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/ome.schema`:
- Around line 12-19: Replace the inert minContains constraint in the series
array schema with minItems: 1 so empty series arrays are rejected; if this file
must remain a verbatim upstream copy, preserve alignment instead and defer the
change to the upstream schema.

In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/plate.schema`:
- Around line 15-53: Reject plates containing duplicate acquisition IDs by
adding a strict ID-uniqueness check to validate_plate(), while preserving
validation for required integer IDs. The acquisition definitions at
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/plate.schema lines 15-53 and 102-131, and
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/well.schema lines 15-43, require no direct
changes; they are affected schema sites covered by the validator fix.
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@joshmoore @jni @jo-mueller how should the issues with the schema be addressed? Issues in ngff-spec? PR's to ngff-spec?

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I'm not sure what the issues you are referring to are, @thewtex, but:

  • If there are larger discussions, general rule is issues again ome/ngff
  • More concrete changes I think would be ok on ome/ngff-spec but I defer
  • Obviously, PRs welcome, just against the 0.9dev branch SVP.

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@joshmoore, @thewtex was referring to the issues CodeRabbit identified while reviewing the schemas vendored in this PR, see the comments above. Those issues haven’t been reported upstream yet.

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FMPOV, a PR targeting the 0.9.dev2 version would be great.

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@joshmoore done, against 0.9dev.

ome/ngff-spec#195, description text only, no document changes validity:

  • byDimension describes inputAxes and outputAxes as "Names of the ... axes" while both arrays are typed number. The spec text already says positions in three places, and tests/attributes/spec/invalid ships a fixture using ["x"] so that it is rejected, so it is the description that is out of sync. Closes [Issue]: byDimension schema and description may be out of sync ome/ngff-spec#179.
  • "A sequence of a ingle scale followed by a single translation" in image.schema, present since 0.6rc0.

ome/ngff-spec#196: minContains: 1 on ome.series has no effect without a contains in the same schema object, so "series": [] validates even though series is required. Whether an empty series should be rejected is a normative call, so it is an issue rather than part of the PR.

The two remaining findings are answered in their own threads. The flat axes one describes the intended read tolerance for a 0.5 shaped document carrying a 0.9 version string, which the schema correctly refuses under validate=True. The acquisition id uniqueness one is a structural rule that holds from v0.4 onward, tracked in #667.

Nothing changes in this PR: the 20 files under py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/ stay byte for byte identical to the 0.9.dev1 tag, which is the whole point of vendoring them.

The reader accepts a flat axis list at 0.9.dev1, so a store carrying a
0.9 version string over a 0.5-shaped entry stays readable. That tolerance
is one-sided: the entry declares no coordinateSystems, which image.schema
requires, and its dataset transforms name no input or output, so the
schema pass refuses it.

Only the lenient half was covered. The refusal is asserted without a
message match, since jsonschema reports whichever of the two violations
it reaches first.
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Correcting the comment above: 8dcd780 does change this PR, contrary to the last line I wrote there. The schemas are untouched and still byte for byte the 0.9.dev1 tag. What the commit adds is one test.

Answering the flat axes thread, I stated a contract that nothing in the suite held anyone to. Only the lenient half was covered, by test_read_flat_axes_shape. test_the_flat_axes_shape_fails_the_schema_pass now pins the other half, that the same store fails validate=True.

Writing it showed my reason in that thread was incomplete. The 0.5-shaped entry breaks the 0.9.dev1 schema twice over: it declares no coordinateSystems, which image.schema requires, and its dataset transforms name no input or output. jsonschema reports the second, so the test asserts the refusal without matching on a message.

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