1st INCF Workshop on Sustainability of Neuroscience Databases

Stockholm, December 13 - 14, 2007

Goal

The goal of this meeting was to discuss issues related with sustainability of neuroscience databases, to identify problems, to discuss solutions or approaches to these problems, and to formulate recommendations to the INCF.

Invited participants

Chris Emblow, Akvaplan-niva AS, Tromsö, Norway
Jack van Horn, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Tadashi Isa, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan
Martin Kersten,    Center for Mathematics and Informatics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,    Netherlands
Alessandro Orro, CNR-Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Segrate, Italy
Roman Moucek, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Martin Nawrot, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
Matias Palva, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Jaap van Pelt, VU University Amsterdam,    Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fiona Reddington, NCRI Informatics Initiative, London, UK
Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego, LaJolla, USA
Jostein Kandal Sundet,    University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Shiro Usui, Riken Brain Science Institue, Saitama, Japan
Ilya Zaslavski, University of California, San Diego, LaJolla, USA      

Reporter: Jack van Horn, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Program

December 13:
09:00 - 09:30   Introduction and orientation (Bjaalie and van Pelt)
09:30 - 12:30   Scientific presentations and discussions
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
13:30 - 16:00   Scientific presentations and discussions
16:00 - 18:00   Meeting of working groups
19:00 -               Dinner and further discussion

• Jaap van Pelt | Sustainability issues of neuroscience databases
• Shankar Subramaniam | Interoperability and Data Integration in Neuroscience Databases
• Tadashi Isa | National brain research project "Integrating Brain Research" from the database committee point of view
• Shiro Usui | J-node sustainability scheme including government support
• Jack van Horn | Business Models for Neuroscience Database Sustainability
• Chris Emblow | The Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data and its role in the sustainability of taxonomic checklist databases
• Wouter Los | Maintenance, sustainability and management of databases in the environmental sciences
• Fiona Reddington | Multi-disciplinary Data Sharing: A UK Perspective
• Jostein Kandal Sundet | Data exchange in international collaborations
• Ilya Zaslavski | Long-term preservation of spatial information: research issues and supporting infrastructure
• Matias Palva | Dataformat and interface issues for sustaining multi-scale databases
• Martin Kersten | Scientific Databases, the story behind the scene
• Roman Moucek | EEG and ERP records - storage and processing
• Martin Nawrot | Three challenges: data complexity, data format confusion and intransparency of data analyses
• Alessandro Orro | Data management in the EGEE Grid Infrastructure: the BioinfoGRID experience
  

Each presentation is scheduled to allow 20 minutes, including questions.

December 14:
08:30 - 12:30   Meeting and report of working groups
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
13:30 - 16:00   Draft report
 

Support

Supported by European Union Special Support Action: INCF, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, and the INCF Central Fund.

Meeting location

INCF Secretariat
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15 A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
Travel info

Travel between the airport, the hotel, and the INCF Secretariat

Scientific organizer

Jaap van Pelt, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands