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[SLIDE OVERVIEW] Imaging-PHD: Empowering data reuse and reproducibility through microscopy-community-defined Persistent Hardware Descriptors

  • 1. University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • 2. SciCrunch Inc
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, San Diego
  • 4. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • 5. UMass Chan Medical School
  • 6. University of Vermont
  • 7. MIA Cellavie Inc.
  • 8. ROR icon German BioImaging – Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse
  • 9. Open Microscopy Environment
  • 10. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Description

This proposal introduces Persistent Hardware Descriptors (PHDs) for microscopy to improve metadata capture and storage for scientific research. The objectives include establishing a standardized framework for documenting hardware configurations, creating a collaborative space for editing and publishing these configurations, and launching an outreach program to educate and train users on using these tools. This project aims to enhance research reproducibility, data integrity, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with a design that is interoperable across various research domains.

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Additional details

Related works

Is described by
Proposal: 10.5281/zenodo.17822844 (DOI)
Is supplemented by
Presentation: 10.5281/zenodo.18394443 (DOI)
Presentation: 10.5281/zenodo.17381128 (DOI)
Presentation: 10.5281/zenodo.16926310 (DOI)

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
Frameworks-Imaging-PHD: Empowering data reuse and reproducibility through microscopy-community-defined Persistent Hardware Descriptors 2513921

Dates

Submitted
2025-07-15
Date submitted to NSF