Data Standards and Sharing Working Group

Notes from the IBI Open Symposium, 14 Nov 2022
Event website: https://brainminds-beyond.jp/satelliteopen@sfn_2022_ibi_data_WG.html
Kenji Doya (Japan Brain/MINDS & Brain/MINDS Beyond, OIST, Japan) opened the event andwelcomed attendees.
Jan Bjaalie (EU Human Brain Project, Univ. of Oslo, Norway) was not able to attend inperson, therefore he addressed the audience via a video message, introducing theInternational Brain Initiative (IBI) and its Working Groups.
The new chair and co-chair in the IBI Strategy Committee were announced: Dr. July Illes,CM, PhD, Canada, Dr. Tony Hannan, PhD, Australia.
Kenji Doya continued with the introduction to the IBI Data standards and Sharing Working
Group (WG). He introduced the brief history of IBI Data S&S WG, activities and goals of thethree taskforces: Data Governance TF, Data Catalog TF, Training TF.
Keynote Talk on Open science at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics was presented byKarel Svoboda (Allen Institute, USA). He introduced the Allen Institute mission, organization,
the open science strategy and its importance with examples on data re-use in neuroscience.
He presented the goals, challenges, approach and progress in trying to bring the community
to data in the public cloud, as well as bringing up the question of whether open sciencemeans free science.
• Discussion with audience:o Libre idea: people should pay individually and not subscriptions, and this cost
would be reasonable. Genomics and biobanks in the UK have similar models.
o Q: Grad programs: most don’t have a programming course. How do you train
the recent generation to justify the time and effort required – it’s hard toconvince your PIs this is needed.
A: Often students organise among themselves programming courses – we aregetting there.
o We should not be stuck with one vendor for cloud storage services – we lose
the possibility to bargain. We get incredible deals on storage right now
Afterwards a series of flash talks took place. Tom Johnstone (Australia) was set to present at
this session, however, he was not able to attend the event.
A call for distributed infrastructures (video record)
JB Poline (Canadian Brain Research Strategy / McGill Univ., Canada)• Jean-Baptiste Poline presented a call for distributed infrastructure.
• Presented a review article on “in defense of decentralized data management”
The open Metadata Initiative for Neuroscience Data Structures (openMINDS)
Lyuba Zehl (EU Human Brain Project / INM, Germany)

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Dr. Zehl presented the openMINDS – open metadata initiative for neurosciencedatasets

Data collection and sharing in Brain/MINDS Beyond human brain MRI project
Saori Tanaka (Japan Brain/MINDS Beyond / ATR, Japan)• Introduced the data collection and sharing in brain minds beyond human brain MRIproject
Data Standardization & Utilization in South Korea
Ja Wook Koo (Korea Brain Initiative / KBRI)• Implementation research in KBRI
• Database development for national brain research resources• Data standardization in brain science – an effort in one year to classify molecular andneuroimaging information
The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Data Ecosystem
Michael Hawrylycz (USA NIH BRAIN Initiative /Allen Institute, USA)
• The brain initiative cell census network – a 5-year program, profiling cell types in themammalian brain• There are 4 different BRAIN Initiative data archives
brainlife.io A US BRAIN Initiative distributed cloud computing platform
Franco Pestilli (NSF+NIH BRAIN Initiative/UT Austin, USA)
• Brainlife.io – free and secure reproducible neuroscience analysis platform• Challenge of reproducible big data neuroscience
GNORDIC: A Global Neuroscience Open Data Challenge
Maryann Martone (UCSD, USA)
• GNORDIC: global neuroscience open reusable data challengeo 3 major organizations working on data standards: INCF, IBI, GBC
Three task forces (TF) of the IBI Data Standards and Sharing WG were briefly presented,
slides are available however there was no time for detailed questions.
• Data Governance TF: Toward a framework for international data governance
Damian Eke, De Montfort Univ., UK
Franco Pestilli, UT Austin, USA
Matthew Brown, Wellcome Trust, UK• Data Catalog TF: Developing a dashboard to collect the projects and datasets
supported by the various brain initiatives
Sean Hill, CAMH, Canada
Tom Johnstone, Swinburne Univ., Australia• Training TF: Building capacity to study neuroscience
Sharon Crook, Arizona State Univ., USA

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Developing an International Data Governance Framework to Accelerate Global Neuroscience ResearchSatellite Symposium at SfN Neuroscience 2022, 14 Nov 2022, San DiegoData Standards and Sharing Working Group

Developing an International Data Governance Framework to Accelerate Global Neuroscience ResearchSatellite Symposium at SfN Neuroscience 2022, 14 Nov 2022, San DiegoData Standards and Sharing Working Group

Developing an International Data Governance Framework to Accelerate Global Neuroscience ResearchSatellite Symposium at SfN Neuroscience 2022, 14 Nov 2022, San Diego