fangq commented on issue #2203: URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/2203#issuecomment-920585909
just a quick update - I just received a 5-year (U24) grant from the NIH (National Institute of Heath) to help migrate a vast field of neuroimaging software and data to a unified JSON/UBJSON formats so that these valuable neuroimaging datasets (results from millions of dollars of investments from the NIH) can be readable, resuable, and easily migrated to NoSQL databases for scaling and integration. More details will be available at http://neurojson.org In our first step, we will first convert major neuroimaging data files to JSON, which should be readily usable for a CouchDB query interface. I imagine that with the gradual availability of parsers/libraries, more people may choose to adopt our [Binary JData ](https://github.com/NeuroJSON/bjdata/blob/master/Binary_JData_Specification.md)(BJData, largely derived from UBJSON) format for efficiency purposes; so if importing BJData/UBJSON can be discussed in the roadmaps of CouchDB, that would be fantastic for making Couch an attractive tool towards scientific data and research community. In the meantime, I am coordinating with UBJSON developers on backporting BJData new data markers https://github.com/ubjson/universal-binary-json/issues/109, although, unfortunately the UBJSON development seems to have been stalled over the past few years. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
