The idea of these examples is to create a common JSON header file format that describes the labels and metadata in an atlas such that re-use and integration between atlases is more easily possible across multiple software packages.
There is currently no intention to change or specify the format of the atlas files themselves (Nifti-1, MINC, NRRD, etc) but rather just the descriptive metadata.
For maximum compatibility with most of the software tools we strongly suggest Nifti-1.
See also https://github.com/stity/atlas-schema for some first work on a json schema of the format specification.
Mathew Abrams <mathew@incf.org>,
Jason Bohland <jbohland@bu.edu>,
Timothy Coalson <tsc5yc@mst.edu>,
Alan Evans <alan.acehigh@gmail.com>,
David Feng <d.feng1@gmail.com>
Guillaume Flandin <g.flandin@ucl.ac.uk>,
Vladimir Fonov <vladimir.fonov@mcgill.ca>,
Satrajit Ghosh <satra@mit.edu>,
Matthew Glasser <glasserm@wusm.wustl.edu>,
Andrew Janke <a.janke@gmail.com>,
Mark Jenkinson <mark.jenkinson@ndcn.ox.ac.uk>,
David Kennedy <david.kennedy@umassmed.edu>,
Jason Lerch <jason@mouseimaging.ca>,
Lydia Ng <LydiaN@alleninstitute.org>,
Jason Tourville <jtour@bu.edu>,
Robert Vincent <robert.d.vincent@mcgill.ca>,
Lilla Zollei <lzollei@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>,
Michael Halle <m@halle.us>,
Valentin Demeusy <valentin.demeusy@gmail.com>
Daniel Glen <glend@mail.nih.gov>
Richard Reynolds <reynoldr@mail.nih.gov>