[Neuroinfo] Call for community feedback on the endorsement of Neurolucida XML as a standard

[Malin Sandström]

Dear all,

INCF is seeking community feedback and comments on the review of the MBF
neuromorphological file format v 4.0, a format for digital reconstruction &
modeling structure for microscopic anatomies, also known as “Neurolucida
XML”, which has been submitted to INCF for endorsement as a community
standard.

If you have experience of using Neurolucida XML, we ask you to read the
review report and comment based on your experiences, especially if you
share or reuse data in the format, or work on models or tools that use the
format.

Link to the review: https://f1000research.com/documents/10-712


*Why endorse community standards? *

INCF (incf.org) has implemented  a formal procedure for evaluating and
endorsing community standards and best practices in support of the FAIR
principles. Our mission is to make neuroscience more open and FAIR, to
ensure that research funds and efforts are well invested, and that
neuroscientific findings are robust and replicable. Open community review
is a very important step in the process.

Quality community standards are necessary to make FAIR resources and
processes work, but too many neuroscience communities lack robust standards
or have competing incompatible standards. The rapid development of new
techniques also means that there is a continuous need for new and updated
standards, and that old standards need an active developer and user
community keeping them up to date.

By endorsing standards, INCF wants to make it easy to find the best, most
reliable standard appropriate for your research, and ensure recognition for
community members investing their time and effort in standards.

The review criteria (https://incf.org/incf-standards-review-criteria-v20)
 include Openness; FAIRness; Design, Testing and Implementation;
Governance; Adoption and use; Stability and support; Extensibility;
Comparison (similarity to other standards).

-- 
Malin Sandström, PhD
Community Engagement Officer
malin.sandstrom at incf.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-8464-2494

International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15 A
SE-171 77  Stockholm
Sweden
http://www.incf.org
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