For Canadian neuroscientists, the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) will make data collected through imaging, genome mapping, and other research methods accessible and easier to share with colleagues across the country, improving the odds of producing big discoveries as research data become available to more researchers.
“There’s a trend toward data sharing,” says Dr. Vesna Sossi, who travelled to Montreal recently for the preliminary CONP meeting (video below). “We want to see valuable data being used as deeply and broadly as possible to enable extraction of a maximum amount of information for the greater good of research and the neuroscience community in particular. This new paradigm is based on the FAIR data principle: data should be findable, interoperable, accessible and reusable. This will require new ethical guidelines, data governance models, open-science training and changes in publications and communications policies.”
“The culture in science is changing, and increasingly value is placed not only on results, but also on data collection, and the neuroscience community at UBC will be part of informing that change,” says Dr. Sossi.
