OpenEM Workshop

Thursday 13 Feb 2025, 15:00 → 18:30 Europe/Zurich

A-122 (University of Bern)

Spencer Edward Bliven (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Overview

This workshop deals with the status and implementation of the OpenEM project. OpenEM was launched in July 2023 and is funded by swissuniversities and the ETH Board.

We would like to present the current status and gather ideas and feedback from all stakeholders across participating facilities. This is the right time to place ideas, change requests and feedback.

The Open EM Data Network (OpenEM) is a consortium of Swiss electron microscopy facilities working together to:

• Improve Open Research Data (ORD) practices in the Swiss EM community

• Provide an open and FAIR repository for Swiss EM data not hosted elsewhere

• Standardize EM metadata & automate collection at Swiss EM facilities

• Follow a consistent data lifecycle when collecting data at different facilities

• Streamline publication of EM data into open repositories like EMPIAR, EMDB, and the PDB

OpenEM will target both researchers producing EM data and consumers of open data for additional science. Data producers benefit from more streamlined data collection, standardized facilities, easier deposition for publication, and adherence to data management policies. The wider availability of open EM data brings numerous benefits, including reproducing results, applying new techniques to old data, training AI & other new methods, and mining data for new insights.

Zoom

A best effort will be made to accomodate virtual participants for the presentation sessions. Discussion sessions will not be streamed, as audio quality is unlikely to be satisfactory. Please join at the following zoom link:

Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 614 6135 8757
Passcode: 782458

Collaborative Document:

A shared document has been created for the workshop on google docs. All participants are encouraged to contribute notes and resources.

Slack channel

Please join the OpenEM slack workspace! Participants should join the #workshop channel for live discussion and support.

Recording

Thanks to all the workshop participants! If you missed it, a recording is available here (passcode: .cPK005m). Slides are available from zenodo.

 

15:00 → 17:00 Workshop

Introduction
Status of the Work Packages
Demonstration OpenEM
Feedback & Discussion
Conclusion

15:00 Project overview

Introduction and overview

Speaker: Spencer Edward Bliven (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:25 Demo

Demonstration of the software

16:00 Component overview

A more detailed look at the OpenEM components, presented by the core team

16:35 Discussion & feedback

Discussion session

16:55 Conclusion & next steps

17:00 → 18:00 Apero