International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility

Poline et al. considered the critical issue of data and other research object standardization and, specifically, how international collaboration and organizations such as the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) can encourage that emerging neuroscience data to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). As neuroscientists engaged in the sharing and integration of multi-modal and multiscale data, they saw the current insufficiency of standards as a major impediment in the Interoperability and Reusability of research results. They called for increased international collaborative standardization of neuroscience data to foster integration and efficient reuse of research objects ¹⁾.