Making research data available for Open Science

Project Description

Taking the leap to making large datasets available for Open Science…

This project is aimed at supporting the concepts of Open Science. We have accrued numerous datasets in the Bone Imaging Laboratory that would be valuable to the general scientific community. Although the process of making data available via Open Science, there are several challenges that need to be resolved. This include aspects such as (a) ensuring anonymity of the data, (b) consent to share the data, (c) establishing a place to share the data (i.e., Zenodo), (d) formatting the data and meta-data such that it follows a standard (i.e., BIDS) by implementing new MIDS (linked at https://www.ormir.org), (e) setting up permissions for sharing, (f) instructions on how to cite the data (i.e., https://zenodo.org and/or https://www.nature.com/sdata/). I’m sure there are many other considerations.

We could explore this process by using a complex dataset such as the Vitamin D study, which includes HR-pQCT, DXA, biomarker, etc. Or we could start with a simpler dataset, such as ARTININ, which includes only clinical CT data.

Scope

• PhD/MSc side project
• Summer student

Data Source

• VITD
• Many others

Resources

• https://www.ormir.org
• https://github.com/muscle-bids/muscle-bids
• https://github.com/ormir-mids/ormir-mids