Optimizing Laboratory Data Processing at the ZMT and Guidelines for the General Community

This work was supported by the German Research Foundation DFG under the grant agreement number 442032008 (NFDI4Biodiversity). The project is part of NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure Programme in Germany. This paper is related to the use case #27 of ZMT in the NFDI4Biodiversity (https://nfdi4biodiversity.org/en/what-we-do/use-case-zmt/). It focuses on: Environmental data; Long-term traceability of monitoring data; Structured, semi-automatic data archiving to ensure data is uniquely identifiable for content interpretation and long-term qualita data assurance.