nitrc:Future User Guide - Browse
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There is a wealth of information presented on NITRC for the functional and structural neuroimaging community. All visitors to NITRC are welcome to browse for and view this information. See what other users are discussing through the NITRC Community Forums. Find out more about NITRC through the Community Docs, Wiki, and Trackers. Look at all the software tools, databases, communities, discussion groups, and other resources registered with NITRC. Browse for these registered tools/resources based on particular attributes or by those with the most downloads or most activity. You may find some useful bits of code for your research or you may find a research position. All you need to do is browse NITRC.
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NITRC Community
The NITRC Community Home page is accessed through the main menu "Community" link or its "Home" sub-menu link. This page offers a quick glance at upcoming events and the latest news and discussions for the NITRC community. It provides links to areas of NITRC that may be of interest to the entire functional and structural neuroimaging community.
Community Forums: The NITRC Community open discussion forum gives registered users an opportunity to talk about NITRC, ask questions, and get answers from the functional and structural neuroimaging community. Visitors may browse and view NITRC Community forums, but users must be registered with NITRC to contribute to the discussions. The NITRC Community forum functionality is the same as that for individual tools/resources. Please refer to the Tool/Resource Feature: Forums section of this User Guide for more information on how to use forums.
Recently Active Forums: The most recently active forums are listed for each tool/resource with forum activity. The default display shows the most recent posting within NITRC at the top of this page. Changing the sort order may enable you to more easily find a recent discussion for a particular tool/resource or a particular topic. Once you have selected a forum or post title, the functionality is the same as that for individual tools/resources. Please refer to the Tool/Resource Feature: Forums section of this User Guide for more information on how to use forums.
Events: NITRC and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) share a calendar of competitions, conferences, courses, symposiums, and workshops that is shown on the NITRC Events page. The calendar highlights upcoming events, and both upcoming events and upcoming deadlines are listed below the calendar. Only the first few lines of the event description are shown (up to 160 characters). Any event description that has been truncated can be viewed by hovering your mouse over the description. Clicking on the link for an event will take you to the INCF site for more information. Clinking on the "more events" button at the bottom of the list will take you the the INCF site for a full list of events. As a registered INCF user, you may submit an event to the INCF calendar by clicking the "Submit an Event" button.
News: The NITRC Community News page lists all news bulletins that have been approved by the NITRC moderator for posting to the NITRC Community. These are the same news items that are displayed on the NITRC Home page. Some of these news bulletins are pulled from postings for individual tools/resources, and some of these bulletins are from direct submissions to the NITRC Community. Only the first few lines of text are shown (up to 180 characters). Any news bulletin that has been truncated can be viewed by hovering your mouse over the text. Visitors may browse and view NITRC Community news, but users must be registered with NITRC to contribute to the discussions. The functionality for viewing and subscribing to Community news is similar to that for individual tools/resources. Please refer to the Tool/Resource Feature: News section of this User Guide for more information.
Registered users can submit NITRC Community news to the moderator by clicking the Submit News link at the top of the NITRC Community News page. On the news submission form, enter a title and details for the news bulletin, and then click the "Submit" button. Your news submission will be sent to the site moderator for approval for posting on the NITRC Home page and the NITRC Community News page.
Funding: The Funding Opportunities wiki page lists grants and other funding sources that may be used by the neuroimaging community.
Career Opportunities: NITRC and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) share a job board of career opportunities. NITRC pulls job listings from INCF's RSS feed and displays them on the NITRC Jobs page. Only the first few lines of the job description are shown (up to 240 characters). Any job description that has been truncated can be viewed by hovering your mouse over the description. Clicking on the job title links will take you to the INCF site for more information. You may submit a job opportunity to the job board by clicking the "Submit Job Posting" button.
Documents: The NITRC Community document manager gives registered users the ability to upload and read documentation that may be of interest to the functional and structural neuroimaging community. Visitors may browse and view approved NITRC Community documents. The NITRC Community document manager functionality is the same as that for individual tools/resources. Please refer to the Tool/Resource Feature: Docs section of this User Guide for more information on how to use the document manager.
Wiki: The NITRC Community wiki gives everyone access to general information important to the functional and structural neuroimaging community. Registered users can contribute to NITRC Community wiki pages. For help with MediaWiki please refer to the MediaWiki Help section of this User Guide.
Specific Tools and Resources
NITRC offers the ability to browse hosted tools/resources by their assigned attributes. NITRC also offers the ability to quickly browse by top downloads and by most active.
Browsing by Attribute
An Attribute List and all the public tools/resources registered with NITRC are displayed by clicking the Tools & Resources main menu link or the Browse by Attribute sub-menu link. The Attribute List classifies tools/resources so that they can be found more easily. It allows you to browse the tools/resources by one of eight standard attributes:
- Domain
- Functionality
- Type of Resource
- License
- Development Status
- Intended Audience
- Operating System
- Supported Data Format
Each of these standard attributes is comprised of many sub-attributes.
You may select any of the the attributes shown to browse tools/resources by a particular attribute. The number next to the attribute name indicates the number of tools/resources with that assigned attribute (or one of its sub-attributes) based on your current attribute selection(s). If you need the definition of an attribute, click the Glossary link in the footer.
The tools/resources with the assigned attribute that you have selected are displayed to the right of the Attribute List. For information on the tool/resource list, refer to the Search: Tools/Resources results description in this User Guide.
Browsing by Top Downloads
A list of the most often downloaded tools/resources can be displayed by clicking the Browse by Top Downloads sub-menu link under the "Tools & Resources" main menu link. The Top Downloads page lists the tools/resources by name, ranking them in order starting with the tool/resource that has been downloaded the most. The list includes the number of times each tool/resource has been downloaded. You may click on the tool/resource name to get to the Summary page for that tool/resource.| Note: A script is run nightly to remove spybot downloads from the overall download count for each tool/resource. |
Browsing by Most Active
A list of the most active tools/resources can be displayed by clicking the Browse by Most Active sub-menu link under the "Tools & Resources" main menu link. The Most Active All Time Tools/Resources page lists the tools/resources by name, ranking them in order based on the average monthly activity percentile over the life of NITRC. You may click on the tool/resource name to get to the Summary page for that tool/resource.
Code Snippets
The Code Snippet Library can be accessed by clicking the Download Code Snippets sub-menu link below the "Tools & Resources" main menu link. The Snippet Library function of NITRC allows users to collect all types of knowledge and information about incomplete fragments of code that are usually difficult to organize and share. Examples include sophisticated shell commands, javascript functions, perl one-liners, SQL expressions that perform special queries, algorithms, etc.
Any user can browse the Snippet Library and download code snippets. Click the "Browse Snippets" link at the top of the snippet library pages. You may browse snippets by Language or by Category. The resulting table shows the list of all snippets of the selected Language or Category, and the table includes the snippet ID, the snippet title, the author, and a description of the snippet. You may click on the snippet ID number or the snippet title to view the details of the snippet. You may click on the author name to view the User Profile page for the author.
Image Repository
You may browse neuroscience datasets through NITRC's Image Repository. The repository lets you search for stored images based on demographics, imaging parameters, and fMRI descriptors. For more information on the Image Repository, please refer to the Tool/Resource Feature: Image Repository section of this user guide.
