kousu
commented
2 years ago Off the top of my head:
Responsibilities
- Collect raw data via email, DropBox, Google Drive, ssh, http, smb, and via our local LAN (there was a piece of jargon David Cadotte used to refer to the connection between an MRI machine and a local file server?) and reformat it to be BIDS-compliant
- Anonymize data (defacing, removal of identifying metadata)
- Review data submitted by students and researchers.
- Verify:
- Image quality
- Taxonomy (i.e. file names)
- Metadata (in
.tsvand.jsonfiles) - Anonymization
- Merge pull requests
- Identify validation steps that could be automated and work with the dev team to implement them
- Monitor redundant data rate
- Comply with IRB, consent and copyright compliance terms
- Verify and perform data removal when requested by subjects
- Administer dataset access control; in compliance with license/ethics terms
- Add new contributors
- For private datasets: add new read-only accounts
- Remove users when they no longer need access
- Schedule quarterly access audits
- Provide basic technical support to users downloading datasets
- Diagnose network connection problems
- Isolate software version problems and incompatibilities
- Monitor weekly(?) dataset backups
- Schedule and run data disaster recovery drills
- Participate in BIDS to extend its use-cases
Skills:
- some familiarity with the unix command line (
ls,find,diff,du,xargs,curl,sha256sum/md5sum) - experience with experimental ethics clearances
git- familiarity with dicom and nifti formats
- familiarity with neuromorphology
Bonus Skills
- python scripting
- e.g. can you open 1013 images and find their average voxel count?
- can you write validation scripts?
jq- The use of
git rebase,git commit --amend,git push --forceand their implications git filter-repo, and its implications- Necessary to comply with data removal requests
jcohenadad
in addition to the soft dev announce above, i'd also like to consider data manager/data curator for BIDS databases (and our upcoming public database sharing with Praxis, UNF, Ste Justine, DonUM, etc.). Please throw your ideas/suggestions here