Dear Nikolaos, as far as I know the G-Node group at LMU in Munich is doing some work concerning this matter. One goal of G-node is, to develop guidelines for neurophysiological data sharing, as many of today's commercial recording tools are based on highly individual and proprietary data formats and come only with limited and typically closed-source software tools for data mining and analysis. This shortcoming severely complicates the access, storage, analysis and sharing of neuroscientific data and thus slows down the future development of brain research. Under the following link you can find details: http://www.g-node.org/about

For further details concerning this matter I would recommend to contact Dr. Thomas Wachtler: [email protected]

Best regards, Dirk

Another great resource that is attempting to standardize ephys datasets for sharing is the Neuroscience Without Boarders Project: https://crcns.org/NWB

I would check it out. Their database is steadily growing.

Dear Nikolaos,

today I recognized that there is a new paper published concerning handling of Metadata of neurophysiological experiments: 

Methods ARTICLE Front. Neuroinform., 19 July 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2016.00026: Handling Metadata in a Neurophysiology Laboratory

Lyuba Zehl, Florent Jaillet, Adrian Stoewer, Jan Grewe, Andrey Sobolev, Thomas Wachtler, Thomas G. Brochier, Alexa Riehle, Michael Denker and Sonja Grün

Best wishes,

Dirk