Oliver Ruebel

Project: NWB:N: A Data Standard and Software Ecosystem for Neurophysiology

Description: The neurophysiology field is currently held back by the lack of standards for neurophysiology data and related metadata to enable broad reproduction, interchange, and reuse. The pilot project Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology established a first unified, extensible, open-source data format for cellular-based neurophysiology data. This project will further extend the usefulness of the NWB:N data format by developing and maintaining an accessible and sustainable open source software ecosystem around the data format, with methods for integration of controlled vocabularies, provenance and modeling of data relationships.The project will also develop tools for facilitating community adoption, extension, and curation of NWB:N.