Hi, enjoyed the talks at this mornings session at OGF. I thought the following piece of work might be interesting to add to the discusssion: The CARMEN project from the UK has created something called MINI: Minimum Information about a Neuroscience Investigation. "This framework represents the formalised opinion of the CARMEN consortium and its associates, and identifies the minimum reporting information required to support the use of electrophysiology in a neuroscience study, for submission to the CARMEN system. These guidelines are a work in progress and will evolve." http://www.carmen.org.uk/standards They identified that metadata collection was an issue, and have proposed a way this might be mitigated for their community. chheers, neil -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.