foundingGIDE
Laying the foundations of a Global Image Data Ecosystem
Project summary
Project Duration: 1.1.2024-1.7.2026
Project description
The foundingGIDE project brings together an international consortium of seven partners that provide the necessary and complimentary framework required to establish the basis of a coordinated GIDE. In the field of open life science image data, Euro-BioImaging ERIC plays a central role in data generation, service provision, and user and community engagement, while EMBL-EBI, the hosting institution of the BioImage Archive and IDR, holds a key position as the central data repository. Additionally, increasing national efforts, like German BioImaging’s participation in the national consortium, NFDI4BIOIMAGE, to improve research data management for microscopy and bioimage analysis, addresses the needs of the national community. Key expertise in specific fields such as experience in research, clinical and preclinical image data management at Australian National Imaging Facility and Microscopy Australia, and specialised expertise of RIKEN, the host of SSBD database, on dynamic image data and imaging ontologies, are held at the partners and will be incorporated into the project for the benefit of the whole community.
The project efforts will result in a consolidated landscape for image data sharing that will be built on community approved ontologies and metadata standards allowing interoperation between image data resources. This effort will serve as a blueprint for future national, regional and global initiatives to follow in order to incorporate into the data sharing ecosystem. Individual researchers will benefit from practical implementations, like the image search and analytics portals as well as guidelines for FAIR image data management. Through its centrally coordinated efforts towards GIDE, foundingGIDE will provide a necessary framework for bioimage data to grow into a democratized resource enabling innovative research in Europe and across the globe.
Working towards the vision of a shared global image data ecosystem, this project will:
- Establish coordination among global open bioimage data resources
- Increase resource interoperability
- Engage with and provide guidance to community initiatives and end-users
- Plan for sustainability of developed solutions
- Build an ecosystem for new interlinked resources to grow