update on the eCobidas front (long overdue)

[Remi Gau]

Hey all,

Hope this email finds you well.

This is going to be a "bullet-point" update on the developments of the eCobidas project that have happened since June.

But before that I just wanted to say that I should have more time this year to dedicate to this project so I am going to try to set up monthly meeting / hacking sessions. So expect some doodles and feel free to join any meeting, even if you have not attended before: we'll bring you up to speed. :-)

So here are the latest news:

• the Reproschema that we use for our checklist has now a stable release. Big shout out to Sanu and Satra for all the on-going work there.I have been trying to help them creating some documentation to go with it. There is also currently an extension of that documentation in progress in a pull-request. Any feedback and help is more than welcome. :-)
• The web-app for the eCOBIDAS checklist is now hosted via github pages from a repository on the OHBM github organization. It is also now significantly easier to set up a similar app for a another project.
• So much so that when I came across some guidelines for methods reporting in PET imaging, with a very nice and clean companion table <3, I took the time to create a prototype app for that (the repo is here, the prototype app is there). Talking with Melanie Ganz and Martin Noogard  (2 of the authors of these guidelines and leading the effort to use those to create a Brain Imaging Data Structure extension to cover PET imaging) made it clear that such a checklist could also prove to be very useful already at the data collection stage. So I guess that's have another use-case to our list. :-)
• There is also some preliminary work on a checklist for eye-tracking studies, based on some recent guidelines (see the repository and the prototype app).
• The paper for the EEG and MEG guidelines is out in Nature Neuroscience, and the companion OSF project is there to keep iterating and improving the guidelines over time. This means that there is now a "stable" basis to move forward with an EEG and MEG checklist.
• The timing is quite good as another group has been working on ARTEM-IS (Agreed Reporting Template for EEG Methodology - International Standard) that constitute sort of a sub-set of the whole COBIDAS MEEG project and thus constitute a good candidate to give a first stab at working on an MEEG checklist. If you want to know more about ARTEMIS, have a look at crowdcast session about it at the recent liveMEEG conference. The ARTEMIS team is actually looking for feedback on their guidelines and is organizing a meeting for that on the 5th of November (Zoom link; Meeting ID: 755 4746 6180; Passcode: 0h1yZj).
• At a higher level, I have joined the OHBM new committee for Best practices that will try to coordinate with similar committees or working groups in other organizations, notably the International neuroinformatics coordination facility (INCF). I also contacted INCF to see if they would be interested in helping the COBIDAS checklist project in terms of supervision and guidance to which they responded positively. I have to fill in an application for that.
• Which is the reason why I first started by doing a lot cleaning on the eCobidas repository:
• the documentation has been cleaned and reorganized: https://remi-gau.github.io/eCobidas/
• the little bit of python code we use has been refactored and is hopefully easier to work with: https://github.com/Remi-Gau/eCobidas/tree/master/scripts
  
• I have started breaking our different goals into milestones and issues
• the different spreadsheets we use should also be more "standardized"
• So have a browse and let me know where things are unclear and need further improvement

OK that's it for now. Feel free to ask questions or let me know if things are unclear.

For those of you interested, I will be on the ARTEMIS call on the 5th of November to see how our projects can best synchronise. After that I will set up a meeting to give a live tour of all those new things and discuss what we want to work on for a hackathon during the coming brainhack global.

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Rémi Gau

[JB Poline]

Hi Remi

Thanks *so much* for the great work and summary - this is such an important direction for both OHBM and INCF !

Cheers

JB

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