• Atlas definition:
  • Collection of annotations within a coordinate system (ontological)
  • Canvas on which you pin information including the tools and protocols for integrating the information (functional)
  • Spatially defined data repository-metadata-viewers (structural or content)
  • Space is used as an index for informing search/retrieval + tools for converting different representations of space (main feature)
  • A way to organize the community (social)

This sort of atlas could contain image data, electrophysiological data, behavioral data, etc.