metadata management

MyTardis is free and open-source data management software. It facilitates annotation, sharing and archiving of data and metadata collected from different modalities. It focuses on integration with scientific instruments, instrument facilities and research storage and computing infrastructure; to address the challenges of data storage, data access, collaboration and data publication. It is currently being used to capture data from areas such as optical microscopy, electron microscopy, medical imaging, protein crystallography, neutron and X-ray scattering, flow cytometry, genomics and proteomics.

Key features:

• Easy instrument integration.
• Discipline specific: MX, Imaging, Microscopy, Genomics ...
• Wide range of data formats & supported instruments.
• Secure cloud data storage & access.
• Simple data sharing.
• Researcher controlled data publishing.
• APIs for programmatic access to data and metadata.

OMERO.webtagging is the umbrella name for tools developed to enhance use of text annotations (tags) in OMERO. There are two tools at present, autotag and tagsearch.

OMERO is an image database application consisting of a server and several clients, the most important of which are the web client and Insight java application.

Metadata are extracted from images that have been imported (either using the Insight client, or directly from the filesystem), and this is accessible for search. A standardised hierarchy of Project > Dataset > Image in which image thumbnails can be viewed, combined with group membership, tagging, and attachment of results and other files gives a powerful framework for organising scientific image data. Images can also be analysed server-side or client-side within the base OMERO application or one of its many extensions.

OMERO has APIs for extension in multiple languages: java, python, C++ and MATLAB; and such extensions have easy access to the image data and metadata in the database