NIDM

The Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM) is an extension to the W3C PROV standard for human brain imaging. NIDM defines PROV-compatible terms for neuroimaging concepts and relationships.

Development status

NIDM is a mature standard widely adopted by the neuroimaging community. Working groups actively maintain and update the standard.

Innovation

By using Semantic Web standards and technologies as its base, NIDM builds on and uses existing frameworks and tools while focusing on neuroimaging-specific concepts. NIDM is developed by community consensus around and open standard rather than as a closed or proprietary definition.

Citation information

Keator, D. B., Helmer, K., Steffener, J., Turner, J. A., Van Erp, T. G. M., Gadde, S., Ashish, N., Burns, G. A., & Nichols, B. N. (2013). Towards structured sharing of raw and derived neuroimaging data across existing resources. NeuroImage, 82, 647–661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.094

Queder, N., Tien, V. B., Abraham, S. A., Urchs, S. G. W., Helmer, K. G., Chaplin, D., van Erp, T. G. M., Kennedy, D. N., Poline, J.-B., Grethe, J. S., Ghosh, S. S., & Keator, D. B. (2023). NIDM-Terms: community-based terminology management for improved neuroimaging dataset descriptions and query. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2023.1174156

RRID:SCR_013667

How to use

Ideally the details of NIDM are invisible to the end user.

Some tools that produce NIDM are:

  • NIDM toolbox for SPM
  • nidmfsl
  • PyNIDM

Some tools that consume NIDM are:

  • Nibagel
  • NeuroVault

It is possible to interact with NIDM using:

  • PyNIDM
  • NIDM-Viewer

Links

Representative publications