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.
Project: The Neuroimaging Data Model: FAIR descriptors of Brain Initiative Imaging Experiments
Description: Inconsistent terminologies of neuroimaging metadata prevent the precise description of the design and intent of an experiment, experimental subject characteristics, and the data acquired. Dr. Keator and colleagues aim to address this problem by developing human neuroimaging domain-specific controlled vocabularies. This will greatly improve our ability to search across datasets; to reuse, compare and integrate data across studies and sites; and to replicate neuroscience findings. They also aim to promote the adoption of the controlled vocabularies through community engagement.