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Open Data in Neuroscience: Data Sharing in EBRAINS

There is a broad consensus among researchers, publishers, and funding bodies that open sharing of data is needed to address major reproducibility and transparency challenges that currently exist in all scientific disciplines. In addition to potentially increasing the utilization of shared data through re-analysis and integration with other data, data sharing is beneficial for individual researchers through data citation and increased exposure of research. The EU Human Brain Project (HBP) has developed a data-sharing platform (EBRAINS) with associated tools, workflows, and data curation services tailored for the sharing of heterogeneous, multimodal neuroscience data. Learn more about EBRAINS data sharing, the underlying tools and services, and what it means for you as a researcher at ebrains.eu.

In this course, we walk you through the curation process from start to finish and introduce you to workflows, integrated analysis pipelines, and other tools that can further research for yourself and others! This course was developed by Maaike van Swieten, Ida Aasebø, and the EBRAINS Curation Services.

Course Features
Videos
Lectures
Tutorials
Lessons of this Course
1
1
Duration:
17:32
Speaker:

This video gives a short introduction to the EBRAINS data sharing platform, why it was developed, and how it contributes to open data sharing.

2
2
Duration:
10:54

This video introduces the key principles for data organization and explains how you could make your data FAIR for data sharing on EBRAINS.

3
3
Duration:
17:23

This video explains what metadata is, why it is important, and how you can organize your metadata to increase the FAIRness of your data on EBRAINS.

4
4
Duration:
9:48

This video introduces the importance of writing a Data Descriptor to accompany your dataset on EBRAINS. It gives concrete examples on what information to include and highlights how this makes your data more FAIR.

5
5
Duration:
14:27

This video demonstrates how to find, access, and download data on EBRAINS.