INCF: enabling open and FAIR neuroscience

Summary:
INCF supports and promotes the development of open and FAIR standards and best practices to make data collection and processing easier for neuroscientists. Our community is dedicated to pushing open neuroscience and we support its work in developing the tools and resources needed to make this possible.
We have recently made it easier to have a voice in how our work is being done by opening up membership in INCF to individuals, institutions, projects, and companies. Membership in INCF gives you a voice in the discussions around standardization, training, and open science by either direct or elected representation on our different councils and committees. Other benefits include discounts to events, products, and services, and the possibility to acquire funding for developing standards and best practices.
The other major focus of INCF is training in neuroinformatics and educating researchers on how to implement the standards and best practices the network develops. TrainingSpace (TS) is an online hub that aims to make neuroscience educational materials more accessible to the global neuroscience community developed in collaboration with INCF, HBP, SfN, FENS, IBRO, IEEE, BD2K, and iNeuro Initiative. As a hub, TS provides users with access to:
● Multimedia educational content from courses, conference lectures, and laboratory exercises from some of the world’s leading neuroscience institutes and societies
● Study tracks to facilitate the self-guided study
● Tutorials on tools and open science resources for neuroscience research
● A Q&A forum
● A neuroscience encyclopedia that provides users with access to over 1.000.000 publicly available datasets as well as links to literature references and scientific abstracts
Topics currently included in TS include general neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neuroinformatics, computer science, data science, and open science. All courses and conference lectures in TS include a general description, topics covered, links to prerequisite courses if applicable, and links to the software described in or required for the course, as well as links to the next lecture in the course or more advanced related courses. In addition to providing resources for students and researchers, TS also provides resources for instructors, such as laboratory exercises, open science services, and access to publicly available datasets and models.
Speaker Bio:
Dr Helena Ledmyr is the Director of Development and Communications at INCF (incf.org), a global organization that advances data reuse and reproducibility in brain research by coordinating the development of Open, FAIR, and Citable tools and resources for neuroscience. Helena has been at INCF since 2010 and manages development initiatives and communications strategies. Her experiences include working with science communication and administration at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and she is currently the vice-chair for the Swedish Network for Research Communication (forskom.org), and one of the moderators of Real Scientists (realscientists.org), a science communication project on Twitter with 85k followers.
Moderator:
Dr Arif A. Hamid, Brown University.
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Coordinator:
Mosab Ali Awadelkareem, Al-Neelain University, Sudan.
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