Brain Data Modeling Hackashop 2024
The objective of the event was to bring the neurophysiology data and standards developer community together to evaluate the use of LinkML to create common schema and facilitate integration of data across standards and resources. The goal was to create LinkML based schemas that integrate information across existing efforts in data modeling for neuroscience and leveraging existing standards and resources, e.g, NWB, AIND, OpenMINDS, DANDI, and BICAN. To support large scientific data, a second goal was to extend LinkML for array type data structures required, e.g, for NWB and OME-Zarr. This was an invitation-only event.
Dates and Location
Main Event
- Dates: February 5-7, 2024
- Note: The main program started at noon on Feb. 5 to allow attendees taking morning flights to be able to get to ICSI on time.
- Location: International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), 2150 Shattuck Ave, Suite 250, Berkeley, CA 94704
Optional Bonus Hacking Days
Participants could optionally choose to stay up to 2 extra days to continue working together in a free-form fashion.
- Dates: February 8-9, 2024
- Location: Building 59 (Shyh Wang Hall), 1 Cyclotron Road, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Agenda
The main program started at noon on Feb. 5 to allow attendees taking morning flights to be able to get to ICSI on time.

Projects
To ease collaborative editing of projects, projects were managed in the following Google Docs: