NeuroJSON Community Survey (2025-1)

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The NeuroJSON project, led by Dr. Qianqian Fang at Northeastern University, USA, is inviting you to participate a brief survey on best practices of sharing research and scientific data.

Dr. Fang and his team is developing a data sharing portal at https://neurojson.io under an NIH award. The data portal currently contains 21 databases (collections), over 1500 datasets, with free imaging (MRI/EEG/MEG/fNIRS) data measured over 58000 subjects.

This survey will only take a few minutes of your time. It will offer crucial community feedback that can help prioritize our resources in the next stages.

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    "name": {
      "title": "Your full name",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "title": {
      "title": "The title that best describes your current position",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "radio",
      "enum": [
        "MS student",
        "PhD student",
        "Postdoctoral fellow",
        "Faculty or Principal Investigator",
        "Researcher/employee of a company"
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    "inst": {
      "title": "Your institute/company",
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    "email": {
      "title": "Your work email address",
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    "Q1": {
      "title": "1. Your past experience with our data portal at https://neurojson.io",
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      "format": "radio",
      "enum": [
        "I have previously browsed NeuroJSON.io and downloaded datasets",
        "I have only browsed NeuroJSON.io, but did not download anything",
        "I have heard about NeuroJSON.io but did not have a chance to try",
        "This is the first time I heard about this resource"
      ]
    },
    "Q2": {
      "title": "2. What would you like to see in order to better use our resources at NeuroJSON.io",
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      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "A journal publication describing the key technical details of the platform",
          "Video tutorials on how to navigate, query and download datasets",
          "Detailed documentations",
          "More community engagement via emails, mailing lists, forums",
          "Workshops and training events at conferences"
        ]
      }
    },
    "Q3": {
      "title": "3. What is the best description of your (lab's) needs for using research data - check all that apply",
      "type": "array",
      "uniqueItems": true,
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "We need reliable data hosting services to share our data for publications",
          "We want to download existing public datasets to run data analysis",
          "We need efficient data search tools to identify public data that are useful",
          "We need software to help organize lab's internal datasets",
          "We currently do not share our data or use other's data in our research"
        ]
      }
    },
    "Q4": {
      "title": "4. What are the main barriers of your lab's data sharing?",
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          "No or low incentive",
          "Time consuming to organize/format data",
          "Little data to share",
          "No platform to host for free",
          "Data size is too big",
          "Data is too complex"
        ]
      }
    },
    "Q5": {
      "title": "5. What are the main barriers of reusing existing public data?",
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          "Time consuming to organize/format data",
          "Little data to share",
          "No platform to host for free",
          "Data size is too big",
          "Data is too complex"
        ]
      }
    },
    "Q6": {
      "title": "6. What are the primary software environments you run data analysis?",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "radio",
      "enum": [
        "MATLAB",
        "Python",
        "Commercial software",
        "Cloud computing"
      ]
    },
    "Q7": {
      "title": "7. Please rank the following features from the most useful to least useful?",
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          "Users can upload new data",
          "Users can list/download data in MATLAB or Python",
          "More datasets",
          "Enhanced search capability",
          "More biophotonics datasets",
          "Harmonize data to facilitate search",
          "Allow to run analyses using NeuroJSON data"
      ]
    }
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