Research data repositories

working groups
NIDAG NIDAG is an international working group dedicated to enhancing access to neuroimaging data in order to advance progress in neuroscience.

visualization
VUE

papers and presentations
(PDF includes 4 commentaries by Hamilton, Nielsen, Van Essen, Laird, Lancaster, and Fox.)
 * Derrfuss, J. & Mar, R. A. (2009). Lost in localization: The need for a universal coordinate database. NeuroImage, 48, 1–7.


 * Using the Institutional Repository to publish research data, C Gutteridge
 * Technical and organizational considerations for the long-term maintenance and development of the digital brain atlases and web-based databases, Kei Ito
 * Institutional Repositories and Research Data Curation in a Distributed Environment, Michael Witt
 * Constructing Data Curation Profiles, Michael Witt, Jacob R. Carlson, Melissa Cragin, and D. Scott Brandt
 * Introduction to Institutional Data Repositories Workshop, Michael Witt and Melissa Cragin
 * Strategies for institutional repository development: A case study of three evolving initiatives, Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, and Mark P. Newton
 * An Internet Discussion about Scientific and Scholarly Journals and Their Future Edited by Ann Shumelda Okerson, Association of Research Libraries and James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania

lists of repositories

 * OAD list of data repositories
 * OAD list of document repositories

Why aren't there any sites on both lists?

example neuroimaging databases

 * xnat : software to build your own neuroimaging database and manage study workflow
 * SumsDB : SumsDB is a repository of brain-mapping data (surfaces & volumes; structural & functional data) from many laboratories.
 * 1000 Functional Connectomes Project : Goal: To usher in a new era of discovery science for human brain function through active data-sharing by the neuroimaging community.
 * nitrc multimodal : This is intended to be a resource for statisticians and imaging scientists to be able to quantify the reproducibility of their imaging methods using data available from a generic "1 hour" session at 3T.
 * OpenfMRI : OpenfMRI.org is a project dedicated to the free and open sharing of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets, including raw data.
 * fmridc : A public repository of peer reviewed fMRI studies and their underlying data
 * oasis : The Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) is a project aimed at making MRI data sets of the brain freely available to the scientific community.

example data license

 * BIRN data license