BrainBox: A co-editing platform for neuroimaging data.

A > A0 poster which is designed for fabric print and can be cut and sewed into two Shorts – the BrainBoxers ;D

The poster was presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) in Vancouver, 25–29 June.

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Thanks to many data sharing initiatives, more and more brain imaging data is accessible online. This is great advance, but access to data is just the beginning. The key challenge remains the substantial amount of human curation, visual quality assessment and manual editing required by neuroimaging data. Currently, researchers need to download the data, and curate, edit and analyse it locally and redundantly in each research group. Many labs cannot embark on this time consuming process and have to discard a large proportion of the available data from their analyses, wasting time and funding.

We aim at solving this challenge by proposing a co-editing platform for neuroimaging, similar to Wikipedia or Google Docs: BrainBox. BrainBox facilitates the creation of distributed teams of researchers collaborating in the analysis of open data – promoting a community effort instead of competition.