Overview

Teaching: 180 min
Exercises: TODO min

Questions

• What are the legal aspects to be kept in mind to ease sharing and reproducibility?

Objectives

• To become familiarized with aspects of ownership, licensing, and consent forms

• Be able to choose appropriately from among common licenses

You can skip this lesson if you can answer these questions:

• What license would you choose for your code, or for your dataset?
• How can you anonymize your data?
• Does your experiment participant consent form allow for any public sharing of data?

External materials

• Software Carpentry: Version Control with Git (full: 20m) – Go through the Licensing submodule.
• Four aspects to make science open “by design” and not as an after-thought (full: 20m) – a brief correspondence which recapitulates the aforementioned four aspects: trademarks, ownership, licensing, and participant consent in the scope of the scientific practice.

Anonymization tools

External materials

• Latest anonymization tools for neuroimaging (full: 10m) – Review anonymization tools available for various types of data in neuroimaging.

How can we deface a T1 anatomical scan?

Please deface an anatomical scan. Try to use knowledge of VCSs to track your actions in the best way possible for future reproducibility!

1. create sub-dataset derivatives/demo-bet
2. TODO

Answer

% cd ds000114
% .... TODO

Key Points

• Clear up all the “legal” aspects allowing your work to be reproducible as soon as possible in the course of your research project

• It is advisable to choose some standard license for your materials to ease dissemination

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