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A Toolchain for managing SEM data

Description: This recipe guides you through practical steps to make your SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) data easier to share with collaborators, better findable, and legally reusable. The goal is to enhance discoverability and reusability of SEM data by aligning it with FAIR principles. The use case is divided into 3 main steps each presented as a separate section:

  • Metadata Creation: covers how to generate automatically metadata documents from SEM data
  • (Meta)data Management: includes how to edit metadata documents using the Metadata Editor and how to upload them to a Metadata Repository instance.
  • (Meta)data Access: describes how to search for and access the metadata document using the search component.
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Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with (meta)data management concepts
  • A dose of enthusiasm and curiosity

Ingredients :

  • An SEM TIFF Image is available online via this link. If you already produced your own SEM TIFF image using the Zeiss or Thermofischer instruments and shared it online, you can optionally use it.
  • Installed Metadata Editor desktop application: a detailed documentation on how to install it is available here.
  • Web browser

Time Needed: Approx. 1 hour

Level of Difficulty: Beginner