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Digital Curation Center SCARP Report on Brain
Images
The UK Digital Curation Center is conducting a series of
detailed discipline specific case studies of data curation and data
sharing practices and issues under the rubric of a program called
SCARP (see http://www.dcc.ac.uk/scarp for an overview of the project;
I note that there is no obvious expansion of the SCARP acronym). The
first such study, dealing with Brain Imaging, is now available. Here
are the details:
Our first case study is
titled Curating Brain Images
in a Psychiatric Research Group [PDF, 1.69MB] and involved the Neuroimaging
Group in University of Edinburgh's Division of Psychiatry. A
5-page Summary and
Recommendations [PDF,
170KB] from the study is available. The study combined an
assessment of risks to the long-term value of the research group's
datasets with field work to understand current data practices in their
context. An Annex titled
Neuroimaging Data Landscapes [PDF, 1.23MB] provides background on the
development of imaging, the nature of the data collected for
neuroimaging studies in psychiatry, data repository and curation
resources available, and legal and ethical constraints on data
exchange.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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