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Dear MCX and Iso2Mesh registered users,
I would like to thank you for downloading and using our MCX and
Iso2mesh software in the past, and being a valuable member of our
growing user community.
I am writing this email to cordially invite you to participate a
short survey regarding scientific/imaging data sharing. It should
not take more than 10 min of your time to complete the below
1-page google form
https://forms.gle/kBDCQszdS8sgTkxr7
A little bit background:
A few years ago, I was awarded a U24 grant from the US NIH/Brain
Initiative for developing scalable, re-usable, searchable
neuroimaging data format standards and data-sharing platforms. This
new project, named NeuroJSON (https://neurojson.org), largely
capitalizes upon the vast existing ecosystem of JSON/binary JSON
formats, with particular emphases on
1) enhancing human-readbility of scientific datasets to ensure their
long-term re-usability, and
2) adopting modern NoSQL/document-store database technologies for
searching, indexing and storing growing number of imaging datasets.
Over the last few years, we have laid the foundation for creating
this new service to the community, including defining various
specifications (https://neurojson.org/#specs) using lightweight JSON
annotations for storing complex data structures (ND-array, tree,
table, graph etc) and JSON-wrappers for common modality-specific
data files (JNIfTI for .nii, JSNIRF for .snirf, JMesh for mesh data
etc).
Recently, we announced a new data-sharing portal - NeuroJSON.io
(https://neurojson.io) - with intuitive web-based interfaces for
browsing, previewing and downloading many existing neuroimaging
datasets (many were formatted in the emerging BIDS standard,
https://bids-standard.github.io), spanning across various imaging
modalities and data types. For more detailed features regarding this
website, please checkout our short video tutorial series in
this page: https://neurojson.org/Doc/Start/User
As data sharing is becoming increasingly common - in some places,
even a requirement by funding agencies - we strongly felt that this
scalable data sharing platform we are building at NeuroJSON.org and
NeuroJSON.io would offer valuable resources to both data end-users
(for searching, downloading, reusing, and analyzing data), and data
creators (sharing experimental data from your lab or studies). We
are committed to sharing free/public scientific data in the long
term, and maintaining an vibrant user community.
The above survey is our first step towards understanding your needs,
current challenges in the field, and setting our priorities for the
next step of our project.
We are greatly appreciated for your inputs! We are particularly
interested in helping disseminating fNIRS datasets. We hope
NeuroJSON.io becomes an aggregation point for reusable fNIRS
research data.
Again, thank you for your support and participation! If you are
interested in sharing your data on our platform, feel free to reach
out to me directly, or post a request on our NeuroJSON user forum on
Github: https://github.com/orgs/NeuroJSON/discussions
Qianqian Fang, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
PS: feel free to forward this invitation to any other colleague who
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