Before you start...
On this page, you will find a collection of video tutorials (click on the titles below).
They are created to make it easier for the developers to understand and grasp the tool, the data sets, the ontology... and for interested individuals to understand our goals.
We recommend quickly reading through 'About these video tutorials...'
About these video tutorials...
These tutorials are quick introductions to what we would like to do and are created for those with no or limited background in neurosciences. However, they are also useful for those who have a background in neuroscience and/or neuroinformatics and would like to know what we are up to. The video's level might increase with each video, and therefore it is useful to start with the first and move down to the last.
These tutorials are works in progress and are sufficient for their purpose: give an introduction to Metaneva. If you feel like improving these tutorials, feel free to do so.
Currently we have 4 video's (last 2 are under construction):
1. Metaneva - an Introduction:- Description: this tutorial is the overall 'what and why are you doing this'. It describes the motivation for our tool. In short: Metaneva tries to avoid semantic/natural language bias by using actual data such as stimulus and task for its analysis.
- Level: entry level
- Audience: developers, others
- Keywords:Workbench, motivation, goals, background
- Description: This tutorial explains what specific experiments we want to encode. Metaneva does not include 'all' neuroscientific experiments, and this tutorial explains what type of experiments we target.
- Level: entry level
- Audience: developers
- Keywords:background, limits, experiment
- Description: This explains what an ontology is.For developers this might sound a weird concept, and this tutorial should explain in short the motivation and intention of such an ontology. It's a short introduction so that developers are able to understand the concept 'ontology' in our various documents.
- Level: entry level
- Audience: developers
- Keywords: ontology design
- Description: This tutorial explains what kind of data we are uploading. It's a more in depth description of 'An experiment - an introduction' and allows the developer to understand the data types more into detail.
- Level: intermediate level
- Audience: developers
- Keywords: experiments, data types
1. Metaneva - an Introduction
| This video tutorial is the first in a series of many. It covers the basics of Metaneva and gives a short overview (+15min) of Metaneva. You could say that this is the 'sit back and relax' compilation of some of our documents.
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2. Neuroscientific Experiments - an Introduction
| This tutorial covers the basics of a neuroscientific experiment.It is biased towards our (cf. Metaneva's) perspective, and describes experiment that we want to analyze. As a consequence this is not an introduction to experiments in general!
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3. Ontology Design - an Introduction
| This tutorial covers the basics of a neuroscientific experiment.It is biased towards our (cf. Metaneva's) perspective, and describes experiment that we want to analyze. As a consequence this is not an introduction to experiments in general
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4. Data Sets
| This tutorial describes our data sets. As such this tutorial is similar to the 'Neuroscientific Experiments - an Introduction', but describes in a little more detail how we upload and encode all the different data into our DB. It also gives a very short introduction to what we are trying to analyze with our tool. This is a follow-up for 'Metaneva- an Introduction' or an introduction for those with a background in neurosciences.
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License
These video's are released under the CC license.