[Neuroimaging] Planning for data formats - upcoming journal club

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 4:12 PM Satrajit Ghosh <satra at mit.edu> wrote:
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> hi matthew,
>
> that paper is a great place to start. is there a document that you have where we can add thoughts/pointers to things that have been developed or reevaluated between 2015 and now ?

I haven't got that far yet.  Anderson - I wonder whether your doc is
good place for that?  Or do we need another one, less focused on HDF5?

> quick clarification: is the scope of the discussion limited to certain types of data (e.g, MRI, transforms - i think this was in the czi proposal) or broadly speaking all things neuroimaging (e.g. MEG/EEG/Microscopy/Genetics/Surfaces) or even more general (e.g. nd-arrays, trees, graphs )?

Certainly surfaces - these are on the CZI proposal - but I was - at
the moment - thinking of MRI / CT / PET / transforms.  I haven't
checked out the BIDS spec in detail - but I had naively imagined
something that would be compatible with that, and cover the same sort
of ground - if that proves interesting and necessary.

For example - I could imagine a version of the nice YaML / binary ASDF
format for neuroimaging data, that would have the advantage of being
easily human-readable, being a single file to make copying and sharing
easier, and allowing formal validation against a JSON schema.  But
that's really way ahead of where I am now, personally - I've got lots
of reading and listening to do.

Cheers,

Matthew