Is there a cost to upload and share data through ODC-TBI?

There is currently no cost to sharing data through ODC-TBI. To ensure long term sustainability, we may implement a fee structure for more complex and large datasets and for custom services such as curation and data analytics in the future. However, as a community run non-profit, we will always strive to keep costs at the minimum required to sustain the ODC-TBI.

What is the relationship between PRECISE and ODC-TBI?

PRECISE (PRE Clinical Interagency reSearch resourcE-TBI) is a community consortium responsible for establishing standards and best practices for robust and rigorous research in pre-clinical TBI. ODC-TBI.org (The Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury) is a community data sharing platform for pre-clinical TBI data.  PRECISE is committed to routine, FAIR and open sharing of pre-clinical TBI data and recommends the ODC-TBI as the main platform for data sharing and publishing in preclinical TBI. ODC-TBI, in turn, looks to PRECISE to set data publishing practices and standards on behalf of the preclinical TBI community.

How are standards and publishing policies set in ODC-TBI?

ODC-TBI conforms to general best practices and standards for trustworthy, FAIR and open, scientific data repositories.  We issue DOIs for all datasets, as recommended to support data citation (Fenner et al., 2019) and FAIR, and employ a well recognized standard for structuring our basic metadata, the DataCite schema.  We require all published datasets to have a data dictionary.  As per FAIR, we also support more specific TBI-focused community standards as set by community consortia such as PRECISE.  Community-specific standards include the NINDS preclinical common data elements (CDEs) as well as best practices for recording detailed experimental protocols that will aid in data interpretation.  Information on preparing data for ODC-TBI and the standards we use can be found here.     

How does ODC-TBI support the FAIR data principles?

Publishing data in the ODC-TBI ensures that it is:

• Findable: All data published receive a persistent identifier (DOI) and are accompanied by rich metadata in a machine-readable landing page that can be searched through the ODC-TBI as well as Google Dataset search.
• Accessible: All data in ODC-TBI may be downloaded from our landing pages.
• Interoperable: ODC-TBI uses FAIR vocabularies and common data elements (CDEs) to help harmonize across datasets in ODC-TBI and link to outside datasets
• Reusable: All data are assigned a license, and are described by metadata providing provenance (authors, institutions, originating articles) and key experimental details. All published datasets are accompanied by a data dictionary defining all variables used within the study.