9th BigBrain Workshop - HIBALL Closing Symposium

Introduction to DataLad

27 Oct 2025, 13:30

1h 30m

Hands-on session Hands-on Session 2

Speakers

Dr Adina Svenja Wagner (Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich)Prof. Michael Hanke (Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Description

In this 1.5 hour session, participants will get an introduction to DataLad, an open source software tool for distributed data and reproducibility management, built upon Git and git-annex. With both a conceptual overview of the tool and its major features, as well as a hands-on component, this session focuses on technical and conceptual aspects alike. It aims to show participants how to use Datalad for their research and for which use cases it is suitable.

Requirements

• Laptop

Speaker

Michael Hanke is a professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and head of the Psychoinformatics group in the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He has co-created several neuroinformatics software projects, among them the Neurodebian project, PyMVPA, and DataLad.

Adina Wagner is a research associate and scientific coordinator at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. She contributed to the DataLad project as a software developer and co-created the DataLad Handbook documentation project. She is a proponent of open science, open source software, and reproducible research.