[Feature]: Support HDMF Zarr backend

[bendichter]

What would you like to see added to the NWBInspector?

@CodyCBakerPhD can you help think about what would need to be done for NWB Inspector to support Zarr? Will it be just a matter of adding a flag to read different formats, or will there be more to it?

Do you have any interest in helping implement the feature?

Maybe

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[bendichter]

• add a flag to NWB Inspector to read Zarr files instead of the default HDF5 files
• Checks for compression might need adjustment

[rcpeene]

I'd like to second this. Just ran into a need for us to run NWBInspector on our Zarr files on codeocean

[CodyCBakerPhD]

Thanks for the ping, good timing - we plan on doing this as a part of a series of updates to the Inspector this coming month

[rcpeene]

Just checking in, what's the status here?

[CodyCBakerPhD]

Sorry, it got delayed by some other stuff. Scheduled for this month for sure