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The openMINDS_core repository is part of the open Metadata Initiative for Neuroscience Data Structures (openMINDS). It contains the schema-templates used for registering neuroscience research products into the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph.
The major versions are developed and maintained in different version-branches. The default branch is always the latest version-branch. Each version can be accessed by checking out the corresponding version-branch.
For more information on openMINDS in general and the processing pipelines for the schema-templates please go to the main repository: https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS
Within the HBP, the first basic metadata schemas were called Minimal Information for Neuroscience Data Set (MINDS) and introduced by Hill et al. (2016). Since then, the implementation of the schemas underwent some rather drastic changes. Please find in the following a short outline for each version of the openMINDS_core metadata schemas.
[released: Mar 2017] As mentioned above, the first version was called MINDS. It's development started shortly after the ramp-up phase of the HBP. At that time, the integration of MINDS metadata was conducted via an input mask (Data Workbench) for a relational database that was temporarily in place before the first release of the KG framework towards the late SGA-1 phase of the HBP. This first KG release comprised a translation of the previous relational database to a graph database, and the provision of a new metadata input mask, the KG editor. Although MINDS was modified and extended over time, until now, the schemas are used as building blocks of the KG database in combination with the model schemas defined in v2: uniMINDS.
[partial release: Okt 2018] The second version, called uniMINDS, was never fully released, but rather functioned as a test environment for fully utilizing the power of the KG graph database. In comparison to MINDS, the modularity of the uniMINDS schemas was increased to enabled individual describtions of subjects, tissue samples and files. Furthermore, uniMINDS included a metadata schema for computational models. Until now, the model schema is the only released part of uniMINDS.
[released: Nov 2020] The third version of the HBP basic metadata schemas was renamed to openMINDS_core. Based on experiences collected from the v2: uniMINDS environment, openMINDS will comprise renewed schemas that best integrate with ontologies and other metadata schemas developments within and outside of HBP and EBRAINS. Furthermore, openMINDS will be able to handle information of software, and time-dependent measurements performed on subjects or tissue samples. Its release is planned for the early SGA-3 phase of the HBP.
This work is licensed under the MIT License.