Research Data Management at Microverse

The Microverse RDM Team, in collaboration with Digital Research Services at the University of Jena, offers consultation and hands-on assistance throughout your project, helping you draft and refine your data management plan, select appropriate metadata standards and repositories, and choose suitable licensing.

We provide practical guidance on infrastructure, including storage and backup, electronic lab notebooks (ELNs), and code version control. At publication and project close, we support the curation of datasets and software, preparing high-quality metadata, and depositing outputs in trusted repositories to ensure long-term preservation and discoverability.

Services and tools

Research Data Manager Organiser (RDMO)

DMO is a web application that supports the structured planning and implementation of data management in a scientific project. For the Microverse RMDO instance, we designed a template of a structured Data Management Plan (DMP) for running projects. As part of that template, we are providing information on standards for data reporting (minimum information requirements), data acquisition quality control, and data publication repositories. The information collected from such a document helps us better understand the requirements for a data storage system and shape our infrastructure development. Later, we will allocate space for experimental data on a centralised storage system based solely on that DMP. In addition, such a DMP can be used to justify a computational resource request (HPC) at the University Computing Centre (Universitätsrechenzentrum, URZ), reused in another DMP for a funder, or included as part of a research report.

Image data management platform OMERO

Key Features:

Supports over 140 imaging file formats, including all major microscope formats
Upload data via the desktop app or command line
View, organise and annotate imaging data
Share data using the Groups/Users permission system

The Microverse OMERO instance is reachable from the University intranet and external networks via the HTTPS protocol with the web client, or via the WSS protocol with the desktop app or 3rd-party software (e.g., ImageJ). The total available storage capacity is ~145TB. The server is regularly backed up.

Access to the server can be granted upon written request to the Microverse RDM team or through the Microverse Imaging Center. Most datasets in the Microverse OMERO instance are private. Access to a private project requires approval from the project leader or the data manager responsible for the data.

Services provided by the University of Jena

Education and consultancy

In collaboration with the Digital Research Services at the University of Jena, we can provide workshops on research data management, best practices for scripts and workflows, OMERO tutorials, and metadata standards.