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NWB Workshops and Hackathons

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NWB Docathon 2025

Survey

To let us know about your experience with NWB documentation, please feel free to complete the NWB Documentation Survey even if you are unable to participate in the Docathon. This survey is a great way to help us better understand your experience with the NWB documentation and how we can improve!

Dates and Location

Objective

The Neurodata Without Borders project is an effort to standardize the description and storage of neurophysiology data and metadata. NWB enables data sharing and reuse and reduces the energy barrier to applying data analytics both within and across labs. NWB has seen wide adoption in the neurophysiology community, and there are now over 300 datasets on the DANDI Archive in NWB, including data from the Allen Institute and the International Brain Laboratory.

One of the goals of NWB is to ensure that members of the neuroscience community have the resources and tools to easily interact with their data. We are hosting a dedicated docathon to invite members of the community to join us in updating, improving, and expanding our documentation. The goal of this workshop is to make sure our documentation and educational materials are up-to-date and accessible to new and existing users of NWB.

Many types of contributions are welcome, including updates to:

If you cannot attend but there is an a particular gap or aspect of the documentation you think could use improvement, please submit a documentation issue on the relevant GitHub repo.

Note: All levels of experience are welcome! We have several existing open issues and welcome new contributors.

Registration

Register for the event here.

Logistics

We will be use Zoom for the meeting and will send an email with a link to all registrants.

What to bring?

Agenda

The tentative agenda is below. All times are in Pacific Time (PT):

Code of Conduct

Please see the Code of Conduct for all NWB events.

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