<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial;margin:0px">Dear FieldTrippers,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial;margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Recently, a number of people have been working on developing a common data standard for MEG called BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">They are now requesting community feedback, so please have a look at the brief survey here and help them out: <a href="https://t.co/BjAFmR7yhN">https://t.co/BjAFmR7yhN</a> </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><i>Magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies produce enormous amounts of data that need to be stored, organized and analyzed. However, naming conventions and metadata are often incomplete or inexistent, which is an impediment to the transfer of scientific data and knowledge, the reproducibility of research results, and the curation of large data repositories with entries from heterogenous origins. </i></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><i><br></i></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-size:14px"><i><font face="helvetica Neue, helvetica">Building on recent efforts from the MRI community, MEG-BIDS is a proposition to standardize the arrangement of data structures in MEG.</font><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8705882352941177)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font><font face="helvetica Neue, helvetica">Please refer to the MEG-BIDS manuscript and to the MEG-BIDS detailed specifications for all details concerning the proposed structure:</font><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8705882352941177)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><font face="helvetica Neue, helvetica">- MEG-BIDS Manuscript:</font><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/08/172684&sa=D&ust=1505157728861000&usg=AFQjCNFOvjNkNYmsyA0_EBvZ0KyQ9n1mvA" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">
</a><font face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/08/172684">http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/08/172684</a></span></font></i></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-size:14px"><i><font face="helvetica Neue, helvetica">- MEG-BIDS Specifications:</font><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2017/08/08/172684.DC1/172684-1.pdf&sa=D&ust=1505157728861000&usg=AFQjCNHZY8Z-YO0UQu61iEnkxMFq7DQZUQ" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">
</a><font face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2017/08/08/172684.DC1/172684-1.pdf">http://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2017/08/08/172684.DC1/172684-1.pdf</a></span></font></i></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-size:14px"><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>We wish to survey the MEG community on its present needs with
respect to data management, and design the MEG-BIDS standard to
best respond to these presently unmet needs.</i></p><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Your participation is truly appreciated.</i></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br><div class="bloop_toggle"><a href="bloop://bloop_expand">...</a></div></div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1505199577125721088" class="bloop_sign"><div>—</div><div>Anne E. Urai, MSc</div><div>PhD student | Institut für Neurophysiologie und Pathophysiologie</div><div>Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf | Martinistrasse 52, 20246 | Hamburg, Germany</div><div><a href="http://www.anneurai.net">www.anneurai.net</a> / @AnneEUrai</div></div></body></html>