Data Standards and Sharing Working Group
The IBI Data Standards and Sharing Working Group aims to facilitate discovery, harmonization and use of data across IBI participants and other global research initiatives, international neuroscience-relevant societies, and neuroscience researchers through the following:
- implementing mechanisms for searching across datasets
- assuring data interoperability
- developing data federation strategies
- understanding data governance policies of different initiatives
- promoting clear data governance policies to facilitate international collaborations
- establishing training programs on data standards and best practices
Working Group Membership:
Brain Initiative Representatives
- Kenji Doya, Japan Brain/MINDS / OIST, Japan (co-chair)
- Jan Bjaalie, EU Human Brain Project / University of Oslo, Norway
- Luonan Chen, China Brain Initiative / Chinese Academy of Science, China
- Jung Kyoon Choi, Korea Brain Initiative / KAIST, South Korea
- Damian Okaibedi Eke, EU Human Brain Project / De Montfort University, UK
- Greg Farber, US BRAIN Initiative / NIH, US
- Tristan Glatard, Canadian Brain Research Strategy / Concordia University, Canada
- Takashi Hanakawa, Japan Brain/MINDS Beyond / Kyoto University, Japan
- Anthony Hannan, Australian Brain Alliance / Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia
- Sean Hill, Canadian Brain Research Strategy / CAMH, Canada
- Sungjin Jeong, Korea Brain Initiative / KBRI, South Korea
- Yaohui Jin, China Brain Initiative / Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Tom Johnstone, Australian Brain Alliance / Swinburne University, Australia
- Keiji Tanaka, Japan Brain/MINDS / RIKEN, Japan
- Edda Floh Thiels, US BRAIN Initiative / NSF, US
- Yi Zeng, China Brain Initiative / Chinese Academy of Science, China
Stakeholders and Funders
- Maryann Martone, INCF / University of California San Diego, US (co-chair)
- Mathew Abrams, INCF, Sweden
- Stephanie Albin, The Kavli Foundation, US
- Amy Bernard, Allen Institute, US
- Sin-Kuen Hawkins, IEEE, US
- Paul Sajda, IEEE / Columbia University, US
Scientific Community
- Sharon Crook, Arizona State University, US
- Masao Matsuhashi, Kyoto University, Japan
- Franco Pestilli, The University of Texas at Austin, US
- Oliver Ruebel, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US
- Hiroaki Wagatsuma, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Secretariat
- Nargis Akter, Japan Brain/MINDS Beyond / National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
- Megumi Maruyama, Japan Brain/MINDS Beyond / National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
Working Group Activities:
At the Roundtable in January 2020 and the first WG meeting in February 2020, the following three initial goals were selected:
- To publish a white paper proposing the best practices in data governance and pointing to any needs for international alignment.
- To collect information about what kinds of data initiatives have collected and to clarify the measures for interoperability.
- To collect information about ongoing efforts and to identify unmet needs in training to facilitate data sharing and usage.
Three task forces are formed and working to attain each goal as below.
This task force is now surveying data governance policies of brain initiatives. Learn more here about current data governance policies, licenses, and use agreements, formats, and standards from IBI partner initiatives.
Each brain initiative collects and opens a variety of data. In this TF, mechanisms are being explored for searching across initiatives and assuring interoperability.
The training task force is collecting information about ongoing efforts to identify unmet needs in training to facilitate data sharing and usage.
Working Group Meetings:
- January 12-13, 2020: IBI Data Standards and Sharing Roundtable (Tokyo)
- February 22, 2020 (online)
- April 24, 2020 (online)
- June 24, 2020 (online)
- August 20, 2020 (online)
- October 2020 (online)