Fig. 2: Different categories of metadata that are covered by REMBI.
From: REMBI: Recommended Metadata for Biological Images—enabling reuse of microscopy data in biology
The “study” module describes the top-level metadata elements, in alignment with existing generic standards such as Dublin Core, DataCite Metadata, and schema.org. For example, in a correlative study comprising serial block-face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) and confocal images, one of the study components would contain all information on the EM image stack, the other study component would correspond to the confocal stack, and a transformation description would allow an overlay of the two types of image. Data that retain spatial fidelity to underlying images (for example, label maps, volume renderings) are described in the “image data” module, whereas “analyzed data” (for example, volumetric analyses, image segment features, counts) contains image-derived measurements, typically presented in tabular form. For more details, see the Supplementary Information.
