Basics of RDM in Bioimaging - What is it and why do I need it?

These presentations were developed by NFDI4BIOIMAGE and are part of a 2 day workshop at the Light Microscopy Facility, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen held on 26. 06. 2026 and on 03. 07. 2026. Day 1 ("260626Basics of RDM in Bioimaging - What is it and why do I need it") provides a general introduction into research data management (RDM) and further insights into metadata and ontologies, data organisation, data management plans and public data deposition and highlights their specific relevance in research. Day 2 ("260703Data publication in Bioimaging - Why is it important") provides further insights into the importance of research data publications and its quality criteria, introduces common bioimaging research data repositories and explains how to publish data in them, and presents next-generation file formats (OME Zarr) and standardised research data packages (RO-Crate). The slides are intended for educational use and may serve as a resource for teaching and training in research data management within the life sciences. We acknowledge funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 46/1 – 501864659.