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The EM Glossary: a community effort towards a harmonized terminology in electron microscopy

Brendike-Mannix, Oonagh; Hofmann, Volker; Pauly, Christoph; Kühbach, Markus; Wollgarten, Markus; Konijnenberg, Peter; Schröder, Rasmus R.; Aversa, Rossella ORCID iD icon 1; Brockhauser, Sandor; Özkan, Özlem; Azócar Guzmán, Abril; Sedeqi, Mojeeb Rahman; Sandfeld, Stefan
1 Scientific Computing Center (SCC), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

To be fully exploitable and ‘future proof’, research data needs to meet various requirements. For this, the FAIR principles [1] – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable - provide a widely accepted framework.

Here, we want to focus on ‘interoperability’, which requires a common language for knowledge representation within interdisciplinary fields, such as electron microscopy (EM). Such semantic standards are often lacking or even controversial. In the field of EM, a number of application-level initiatives independently started developing metadata schemas [e.g. 2,3], to describe experimental equipment, workflows, and analysis procedures. Semantic harmonisation of such efforts is required to ensure data interoperability in the future. As a first step, misalignment of terminology has to be addressed by mapping concepts of different scientific contexts, and user groups.

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) [4] is currently coordinating a first effort, the EM glossary group [5], to establish a documented terminology for electron and ion microscopy (IM). This community involves scientists from more than 23 institutions across Switzerland, Austria, and Germany and representatives of the FAIRmat and the MatWerk NFDI consortia.
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Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14178185
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Scientific Computing Center (SCC)
Publikationstyp Vortrag
Publikationsdatum 18.11.2024
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000176655
HGF-Programm 46.21.01 (POF IV, LK 01) Domain-Specific Simulation & SDLs and Research Groups
Weitere HGF-Programme 46.21.05 (POF IV, LK 01) HMC
Veranstaltung 3rd Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Conference (2024), Online, 04.11.2024 – 06.11.2024
Projektinformation NFDI-MatWerk (DFG, NFDI 38/1)
Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung This work was supported by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC), an incubator-platform of the Helmholtz Association within the framework of the Information and Data Science strategic initiative; and the NFDI consortia “MatWerk” and “FAIRmat”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 38/1 – project number 460247524 (MatWerk) & 460197019 (FAIRmat).

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Schlagwörter Electron microscopy, Glossary, Ontology, FAIR data, Metadata Harmonization
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