Overview: Zarr - A Cloud Native ND Array Format

Sanket Verma, Zarr Community Manager & Ryan Abernathey, Columbia University Zarr is a cloud-native format for the storage of large multidimensional arrays. This overview presents the motivation for Zarr, the core Zarr specification, and the implementations of the Zarr protocol. It focuses in on the Zarr Python ecosystem and how Zarr interoperates with Numpy, Dask, Xarray, and Filesystem Spec. The talk also shares some new developments in the Zarr and reviews the ongoing effort to standardize the representation of geospatial data raster data in Zar