Major Achievements / Deliverables

Best Practices: LiMi-Model Revision

• Hartmann, H., Lacoste, J., Moore, J., Grunwald, D., Nitschke, R., & Strambio De Castillia, C. (2026). QUAREP-LiMi: Best Practices for the Light Microscopy (LiMi)- Model Revision Process (1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20733501
  Please share your feedback about both the format and content of the document on  limi-model@quarep.org. 

LiMi-Model and LiMi-Model Viewer

The newly launched LiMi-Model website and the LiMi-Model Viewer have been opened to public. Your contact to us remains greatly valued, so please share your comments about the website on limi-model@quarep.org.
We also welcome your feedback via GitHub, about the content and structure of the LiMi-Model, as well as on functionality of the LiMi-Model Viewer.

NBO Microscopy Metadata Specifications (full name 4DN–BINA-OME):

• Hammer, Mathias, Maximiliaan Huisman, Alessandro Rigano, Ulrike Boehm, James J. Chambers, Nathalie Gaudreault, Alison J. North, et al. “Towards Community-Driven Metadata Standards for Light Microscopy: Tiered Specifications Extending the OME Model.” Nature Methods, December 3, 2021, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01327-9. CITE
• Huisman, Maximiliaan, et al. “A perspective on Microscopy Metadata: data provenance and quality control.” arXiv, 24 Oct. 2019, arxiv.org/abs/1910.11370v6.
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Micro-Meta-App

• Rigano, Alessandro, Shannon Ehmsen, Serkan Utku Öztürk, Joel Ryan, Alexander Balashov, Mathias Hammer, Koray Kirli, et al. “Micro-Meta App: An Interactive Tool for Collecting Microscopy Metadata Based on Community Specifications.” Nature Methods, December 3, 2021, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01315-z. CITE
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MethodsJ2

• Ryan, Joel, Thomas Pengo, Alex Rigano, Paula Montero Llopis, Michelle S. Itano, Lisa A. Cameron, Guillermo Marqués, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, Mark A. Sanders, and Claire M. Brown. “MethodsJ2: A Software Tool to Capture Metadata and Generate Comprehensive Microscopy Methods Text.” Nature Methods, October 15, 2021, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01290-5. CITE
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MDEmic (OMERO.mde implementation)

• Kunis, Susanne, Sebastian Hänsch, Christian Schmidt, Frances Wong, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, and Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters. “MDEmic: A Metadata Annotation Tool to Facilitate Management of FAIR Image Data in the Bioimaging Community.” Nature Methods, October 11, 2021, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01288-z. CITE
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