A Global View of Standards for Open Image Data Formats and Repositories
Jason R. Swedlow, Pasi Kankaanp\"a\"a, Ugis Sarkans, Wojtek Goscinski,, Graham Galloway, Ryan P. Sullivan, Claire M. Brown, Chris Wood, Antje, Keppler, Ben Loos, Sara Zullino, Dario Livio Longo, Silvio Aime, Shuichi, Onami

TL;DR
This paper discusses the importance of standardizing open image data formats and repositories in biological and biomedical imaging to facilitate global data sharing and scientific progress.
Contribution
It provides a global consensus on criteria and provisional guidelines for open image data formats and repositories in biological sciences.
Findings
Consensus on global standards for image data formats
Provisional guidelines for data repositories
Open tools and resources for future development
Abstract
Biological and biomedical imaging datasets record the constitution, architecture and dynamics of living organisms across several orders of magnitude of space and time. Imaging technologies are now used throughout the life and biomedical sciences to achieve discovery and understanding of biological mechanisms in the basic sciences as well as assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention in clinical trials and animal and human medicine. The universal application and use of imaging raises an important question and opportunity: what is the value and ultimate destination of biological and medical imaging data? In the last few years, several informatics and data science technologies have matured sufficiently so that routine publication of these datasets is now possible. Participants in Global BioImaging from 15 countries and all populated continents have agreed on the need for…
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