diff --git a/latest/index.bs b/latest/index.bs
index 7c2a5c7d..4ed18b0a 100644
--- a/latest/index.bs
+++ b/latest/index.bs
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ multiple levels of resolutions and optionally associated labels.
     ├── n                     # The name of the array is arbitrary with the ordering defined by
     │   │                     # by the "multiscales" metadata, but is often a sequence starting at 0.
     │   │
-    │   ├── .zarray           # All image arrays are 5-dimensional
-    │   │                     # with dimension order (t, c, z, y, x).
+    │   ├── .zarray           # All image arrays are up to 5-dimensional with dimension order (t, c, z, y, x).
+    │   │                     # An image without time dimension has axes (c, z, y, x) etc.
     │   │
     │   ├── 0.0.0.0.0         # Chunks are stored with the flat directory layout.
     │   │   ...               # Each dotted component of the chunk file represents
@@ -207,8 +207,52 @@ keys as specified below for discovering certain types of data, especially images
 
 Metadata about the multiple resolution representations of the image can be
 found under the "multiscales" key in the group-level metadata.
-The specification for the multiscale (i.e. "resolution") metadata is provided
-in [zarr-specs#50](https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/50).
+"multiscales" contains a list of dictionaries where each entry describes a multiscale image.
+
+Each "multiscales" dictionary MUST contain the field "datasets", which is a list of dictionaries describing
+the arrays storing the individual resolution levels.
+Each dictionary in "datasets" MUST contain the field "path", whose value contains the path to the array for this resolution relative
+to the current zarr group. The "path"s MUST be ordered from largest (i.e. highest resolution) to smallest.
+
+It MUST contain the field "axes", which is a list of dimension names of the axes.
+The values MUST be unique and one of `{"t", "c", "z", "y", "x"}`.
+The number of values MUST be the same as the number of dimensions of the arrays corresponding to this image.
+
+It SHOULD contain the field "name".
+
+It SHOULD contain the field "version", which indicates the version of the
+multiscale metadata of this image (current version is 0.2).
+
+It SHOULD contain the field "type", which gives the type of downscaling method used to generate the multiscale image pyramid.
+It SHOULD contain the field "metadata", which contains a dictionary with additional information about the downscaling method.
+
+```json
+{
+    "multiscales": [
+        {
+            "version": "0.2",
+            "name": "example",
+            "datasets": [
+                {"path": "0"},
+                {"path": "1"},
+                {"path": "2"}
+            ],
+            "axes": [
+                "t", "c", "z", "y", "x"
+            ],
+            "type": "gaussian",
+            "metadata": {                                       # the fields in metadata depend on the downscaling implementation
+                "method": "skimage.transform.pyramid_gaussian", # here, the paramters passed to the skimage function are given
+                "version": "0.16.1",
+                "args": "[true]",
+                "kwargs": {"multichannel": true}
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}
+```
+
+
 If only one multiscale is provided, use it. Otherwise, the user can choose by
 name, using the first multiscale as a fallback: