nitrc: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 area is accessed through the main menu "Community" link. These NITRC Community features provide a lot of general information for the entire functional and structural neuroimaging community. The Community sub-menu links are discussed briefly below, but the details of many of the features are explained in the Tool/Resource Features section of this User Guide.
Forums: The NITRC Community forums give 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. 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.
Docs: 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.
Satisfaction Survey: The NITRC Satisfaction Survey gives users and visitors to the site a chance to provide feedback to the NITRC team so the site can be revised to further meet the needs of the functional and structural neuroimaging community. The survey is very short, and any user association with the responses is kept confidential.
Funding Opportunities: The Funding Opportunities wiki page lists grants and other funding sources that may be used by the neuroimaging community.
Jobs: The Help Wanted board lists non-commercial, tool/resource volunteer openings. Any user can browse the posted job openings by category or by most recent posts. Click on a category name to see the job openings in that category. The job list includes the title of the position, the category, the date and time the job was posted, and the name of the tool/resource that posted the position. You may click on the job title to view the details of that position, or you may click on the tool/resource name to see the Summary page for that tool/resource.
Submit Community News: Submit Community News gives all registered users the opportunity to submit news that may be posted on the Home page. When you click the “Submit Community News” sub-menu link, you will see the news submission form. Enter a subject/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. Please refer to the News Administration Home Page News section of this User Guide for more information on submitting Home page news.
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 seven standard attributes:
- 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.
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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.
