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User Stories

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The Tools section catalogs what exists. The Concepts section describes how the pieces fit together. This section describes why – the concrete scenarios that motivate the development of tools, connectors, and workflows.

Each user story represents a real archival goal that a person or research group would pursue. Stories identify the data sources, the desired end state, the tools involved, and the gaps that need to be filled.

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Personal Archive – Build a comprehensive personal digital archive from a Google account, photo collections, personal messaging channels, YouTube subscriptions, and other personal data sources. The single largest archival project most individuals will undertake.

Neuroimaging Lab – A research lab running MRI experiments with ReproIn-convention DICOMs, ReproStim stimulus capture, CurDes BIRCH behavioral events, Slack for communication, and GitHub for processing code. Data flows through HeuDiConv into BIDS, then MRIQC and fMRIPrep for preprocessing.

Brain Imaging Center – A shared MRI facility serving multiple labs: collecting DICOMs with ReproIn conventions, running weekly phantom QA to monitor scanner health, recording environmental conditions, capturing stimuli and events for all experiments, and providing streamlined preprocessing via HPC.

Software Project – An open-source project on GitHub (prototypical target: DANDI) needs to archive all forge artifacts – repositories, issues, PRs, Actions logs, Discussions – alongside Slack communications, with a Forgejo-Aneksajo mirror using GitHub authentication.

Brain Imaging Center

·7 mins
User-Story Neuroimaging BIDS MRI Facility QA HPC
A brain imaging center operating an MRI scanner for multiple research labs. The center collects DICOMs with ReproIn conventions, captures stimuli with ReproStim and behavioral events with CurDes BIRCH, runs weekly phantom QA to monitor scanner health, records environmental conditions, and provides streamlined preprocessing via HPC. Data flows from a single scanner to many labs, each with their own vault, while the center maintains its own operational datasets.

Neuroimaging Lab

·7 mins
User-Story Neuroimaging BIDS MRI Lab
A neuroimaging research lab doing MRI experiments with ReproIn-convention DICOMs, ReproStim stimulus capture, CurDes BIRCH behavioral events, Slack for communication, Google Calendar for scheduling, and GitHub for processing code. Data flows through HeuDiConv into BIDS, then MRIQC and fMRIPrep for preprocessing, with results published to OpenNeuro or DANDI.

Software Project

·5 mins
User-Story Software Github Slack CI Forge
An open-source software project spanning a GitHub organization with dozens of repositories, active issue trackers, GitHub Actions CI, Discussions, and Slack for team communication. Prototypical target: the DANDI project. Archive all forge artifacts (repos, issues, PRs, Actions logs, Discussions, wikis) with ongoing sync, preserve Slack history, and mirror to a Forgejo-Aneksajo instance with GitHub authentication.

Personal Archive

·5 mins
User-Story Personal Google-Takeout Photos Telegram Youtube
The complete personal digital archive: ingesting a Google Takeout dump, organizing photos with AI-assisted browsing, archiving personal Telegram channels, preserving YouTube watch history and subscriptions, and tying it all together in a git-annex vault with browsable frontends.