SEM/FIB Tomography Acquisition to JSON
Description
The SEM/FIB Tomography Acquisition to JSON component was developed to work with a specific
acquisition file structure. It takes a zip folder containing one or more datasets of research images
in TIFF format and generates a single
summary metadata document in JSON format
according to a publicly-available schema
created in conjunction with materials research experts conducting SEM/FIB Tomography acquisitions.
This component extracts metadata from a generic XML metadata file present in the acquisition
directory, as well as from each of the images within the various datasets, and compiles the metadata
into a single JSON metadata document. It
is expected to be quite a large document (> 10,000 lines) due to the tendency of these
acquisition files to contain dozens to hundreds of images which must be read and processed.
Input
- Compressed directory containing the project files in
.zipformat - The zip file must contain a single a project metadata file in
.xmlor.emxmlformat, and a directory titledImagescontaining the subdirectories for each dataset - The images must be in
.tiffformat
Supported Vendors
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
Output
- Structured metadata document in
.jsonformat