Report on a pilot study: Implementation of OMERO for microscopy data management

The Core Facility Cellular Imaging (CFCI) at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus (TU Dresden) is currently running a pilot project for testing the use and handling of the OMERO software. This is done together with interested users of the imaging facility and a research group. Currently, we are pushing forward this pilot study on a small scale without any data steward. Our experiences argue so far for giving data management issues into the hands of dedicated personnel not fully involved in research projects. As funding agencies will ask for higher and higher standards for implementing FAIRdata principles in the future, this will be a releva