Hi Jeff
I would be interested to know what metadata schema/data models the various projects are looking at, and whether such schema/models are being investigated for object level metadata, collection level metadata or both. I am currently looking into OME.xml for a CSIRO project, very preliminary stages, and have joined and posted to the
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/ to determine where specimen details are recorded in this data model. The first response indicates that it is captured in Experiment.Description as free text.
Anne