Sharing of electrophysiology data, related metadata, processing methods and workflows is one of the crucial tasks in neuroinformatics.
The mission statement of the GSC is to work toward the implementation of new genomic standards for metadata and methods of capturing and exchanging that metadata.
The PLoS journals, for example, implemented a new data policy earlier this year stipulating that authors must, wherever legally and ethically possible, share all data, metadata and methods that underlie any research findings offered for publication (Bloom et al., 2014).
Metadata-based methods for data integration performed as well as or at times better than vocabulary-based methods.
Most metadata-free methods performed poorly for the pink cluster (challenges 152, 202, 178); all approaches performed relatively poorly for the cyan cluster adjacent (challenges 131, 126, 207 and 119).
In the absence of consistently used pharmacy vocabularies in historical/legacy data, automated metadata-based methods can be used for data integration, and a combination of both techniques would allow the creation of large, longitudinal datasets which can be used in research.
We also designed the method organized metadata in the metadata cluster.
These catalogs can be searched for data and metadata and provide methods to access the data either anonymously or through authenticated channels.
Again, this shows that the incorporation of metadata in automated methods is essential to guide users to the identification for known substances but misleading when assessing the performance of computational methods.
A recognition of issues concerning the fidelity of archeological materials and lavas to accurately record the intensity of the geomagnetic field led to the inclusion of detailed metadata on paleointensity methods.
