Overview

Teaching: 180 min
Exercises: TODO min

Questions

• What legal considerations must be kept in mind to facilitate sharing and reproducibility?

Objectives

• Become familiar with aspects of ownership, licensing, and consent forms

• 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 public sharing of data?

External materials

• Software Carpentry: Version Control with Git (full: 20m) – work 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 considerations – trademarks, ownership, licensing, and participant consent – in the scope of scientific practice

Anonymization tools

External materials

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

Exercise: de-face a T1-weighted anatomical scan

De-face an anatomical scan using your knowledge of VCSs to track your actions according to best practices for reproducibility.

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

Solution

% cd ds000114
% .... TODO

Key Points

• Clear up any legal as early as possible in the timeline of a project

• Choose a standard license for your materials to ease dissemination

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