Request Contract

A contract for services must be established between the author(s) and the Neurobiology Research Unit. This contract sets the terms and responsibilities of each party and the pricing of additional services provided by PublicnEUro. Those services include, but are not limited to, data curation and private hosting.

Download the contract and email the PublicnEUro team. If you choose to share worldwide, and depending on your Data User Agreement (see below), you also need to fill out and return either the controller-to-controller or the controller-to-processor Standard Contractual Clauses.

Options & Pricing

- Basic package (4000 DKK admin fee, 765 DKK each following year) + 0.1 DKK/GB/month
- BIDS curation (if you do not have the time or expertise) + 1000 DKK/hour
- Cold storage (if you want to keep your data but do not need hot access) 1000 DKK
- Free hosting for open data (no admin fee, no storage fee, but no access control)
- Private hosting (just for you and your team) + 2000 DKK. (We manage your group, and only listed people have access to as many datasets as you create, with the basic monthly storage fee per GB added. Private hosting means there is no check from our side of datasets, i.e., no data catalogue to make them findable or BIDS validation; this is just your data and files you want people in a group to be able to download. We can also list the consortium for people to join, up to you).

Compute the estimated cost for the next 10 years using this Google Sheet as a template (go to File -> Make a copy)

Data Curation

Data are prepared by users using the Brain Imaging Data Structure. Upon upload, data will be tested against the BIDS validator and rejected if not valid, unless the contract stipulates that PublicnEUro will curate the data.

All files are represented as JSON files to reconstruct the dataset without direct access, as seen on our data catalogue. However, we also want to provide information about the dataset itself. For this we require that you fill out this Excel sheet, and it will be used to create the dataset information. We are also partnering with other groups in the world to make data as findable as possible, and we ask you to edit your participants.tsv with NeuroBagel. This can be done via the browser here. This is not mandatory, but it will allow federated searches, increasing the impact of your dataset.

Data User Agreement (DUA)

Each dataset must come with a Data User Agreement that sets the licensing terms between authors and users. PublicnEUro does not check the validity of such a DUA, but will store signed DUAs alongside user information for the authors. It is recommended to use the Open Brain Consent DUA template and check with the institution's data protection officer. Key aspects of such a DUA are (i) that the authors transfer data controller duties to users who must then comply with national and GDPR regulations; in cases where only data processor rights can be used, the DUA must be signed by the user and the data controller institution, and PublicnEUro will give access only once instructed by the data controller; and (ii) users must agree that audits can take place to check that there is no data breach. National regulations must be respected.

Upload instructions

Once the contract is in place and you have your data ready, a link will be sent to you from Computerome, our partner hosting the data. Simply select your folder and click Upload (and do not hesitate to reach out for help).