Hi all,

I'm a researcher for the neurosciences with a main emphasis on data storage and retrieval of neuroscience data. Data management is an ongoing task and we're really at the beginning of a decent and community driven protocol.
We are looking for motivated people who are able to modify a particular module. We are negotiating funding (for our developers), and can not give any guarantees on the money involved (all of us are volunteers btw).

We currently developed a storage which is able to store a specific data type. This is the beginning of such a storage protocol. Storage is an open topic and we're one of the view working on such storage.

This form works, but is not written in Xoops. However, there are modules which are able to store data by using a module developed for XOOPS Cube. One of those projects is very flexible and for that reason ideal to store the wide variety of experimental paradigms, data types and data reports.
Despite its flexibility, the actual module is not flexible enough. Hence we need to extend it and modify it so it is able to store more data types. The module looks promising and thus can grow quite quickly. It's obvious that we collaborate with other groups to make this possible.

You, as a developer, need to do the coding and module modification. What we're in fact designing here is a flexible data storage template engine. Strictly speaking, one could use this module to store all sorts of data (not limited to neuroscience at all). So in short: admins are able to design templates to store data (according to certain 'rules'). You do not need a background in neuroscience or science in general. A good knowledge of XOOPS is obviously a goodie.
I will not go into detail on the neurosciences in this post. More info one request. For now it's good to know that we work towards a storage for the entire neurosciences, using templates from community representatives, integrate today standard ontology designs, are open source and work towards a community driven effort for the maximization of data (which includes negative results).

Hence, are there people around who are keen on working on a neuroscience tool?

If so, you can always pm or reply to this message.

Cheers,
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