openMINDS
The open Metadata Initiative for Neuroscience Data Structures:
A community-driven metadata framework for neuroscience graph databases.
This collab appeals to members of the neuroscience community that are interested in:
(1) describing their research product in accordance with openMINDS
(2) conceptually contributing to openMINDS
(3) programmatically contributing to openMINDS
What you can find here:
+ general overview of openMINDS
+ documentation & HTML views for all openMINDS metadata models
+ documentation for contributing to openMINDS
+ documentation for using openMINDS (incl. tutorials)
Who is behind openMINDS?
openMINDS is powered by HBP (Human Brain Project) and EBRAINS, but looking for external contributions throughout the neuroscience community.
We, the openMINDS development team, currently unite knowledge from the EBRAINS Curation Service, the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph, the EBRAINS Atlas Service, and the INCF Knowledge Space teams.
This is our support email: openminds@ebrains.eu
Who adopted openMINDS?
Within EBRAINS, the openMINDS metadata models are adopted by the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph, the EBRAINS Atlas Service, and The Virtual Brain (TVB). In addition, openMINDS is currently in the process of being adopted by the Japan Brain/MINDS project.
For integrating and maintaining community-wide accepted neuroscience ontologies, we are closely collaborating with the InterLex project, a core component of the SciCrunch infrastructure of the FAIR Data Informatics Lab (FDI Lab), formerly known as the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF).
» Documentation
» Metadata models & schemas
» Application details
» Technical details
» How to contribute
» Code of conduct
» Report & ask questions
» Direct contributions
» Tutorials
» Presentations
» Examples
» FAQs
The metadata model specification and corresponding open source code was developed in part or in whole in the Human Brain Project, funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Specific Grant Agreements No. 720270, No. 785907, and No. 945539 (Human Brain Project SGA1, SGA2, and SGA3).
Footnotes
1) Dataset: Within openMINDS a "Dataset" describes experimental data originating from human, animal or simulation studies.
2) MetaDataModel: Within openMINDS a "MetaDataModel" describes specifications for structuring metadata and/or file repositories.
3) Model: Within openMINDS a "Model" describes code and data defined around a computational model.
4) Software: Within openMINDS a "Software" describes programs and other operating information used by a computer to handle data across different Datasets or Models.