Planned ANC service downtime, 31 August–6 September 2026
During the week of 31 August to 6 September 2026, the ANC hardware will be physically relocated to a new location. This will result in significant downtime affecting all ANC services, including:
We apologize for the inconvenience and will restore the services as soon as the relocation is complete.
FAIR data operations for neuroscience
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Attending the Cluster Forschungsdaten EXPO 2025
On January 16th, the ANC had the amazing opportunity to attend the Cluster Forschungdaten EXPO! It was an inspiring experience filled with insightful talks, great networking and exiting ideas for the future.
FIRST OFFICIAL EUROPEAN NEUROBAGEL NODE
Another bite in the bagel! We are delighted to announce that we are officially the first public european node in the Neurobagel universe! You want to have a look at datasets yourself and contribute to our project? Check out out service section for further information!
PSY TALKS - OPEN RESEARCH DATA
Our Head of Project, Univ.Prof. Dr. Florian Hutzler, recently gave a speech on the possibilities of open research data. By promoting the principles of open science, we aim to expand the use of open research and encourage more people to contribute to our project.
ANC at SAMBA 2024
Our PhD student Barbara presented a poster showcasing the ANC at SAMBA 2024. With a whole bunch of insightful exchanges with colleagues and potential future users of the ANC, this was a resounding success. We're encouraged by the positive response and excited about the opportunities ahead.
Visitors from Montreal - Neurobagel and Nipoppy
We were delighted to host Sebastian Urchs and Nikhil Bhagwat from the exciting Neurobagel project based in the ORIGAMI Lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada. We had productive discussions and mutually profited from one another's expertise and challenges experienced in trying to advance the management of neuro-cognitive research data. This collaboration promises to enhance our efforts and drive forward innovative solutions in our field.
Anna's defensio
Is there a doctor on board? Indeed, there is!!! Is it about data? Do we have a severe case of ontological constructivism? Either way, Anna can help for sure. Congratulations to Dr. Anna Ravenschlag for successfully defending her PhD dissertation titled 'It's about data - How ontology-based semantic enrichment of neurocognitive data can aid knowledge valorization and FAIR data operations in Cognitive Neuroscience'
PsychoPy/JS code sprint
Our PhD student Monique Denissen participated in the 2024 PsychoPy/JS code sprint at the University of Nottingham from 15-17 April 2024. She was invited to work on the BIDS plug-in and talk about data standards. A more automatic generation of BIDS events will allow users without much coding experience to adhere to BIDS standards using the PsychoPy Builder only.
New paper out on the past, present, and future of BIDS!
Our Senior Scientist Mateusz Pawlik contributed to a recently published article outlining the history and future vision of BIDS, the community standard for organizing brain imaging data.
Presentation of the ANC in a new paper
We published a new paper presenting the ANC in an Austrian Journal on Higher Education Development. Our PI Florian Hutzler and scientific coordinator Nicole Himmelstoß present the ANC as a showcase repository for FAIR and TRUSTworthy research data management.
