How is the NeuroLex different from Wikipedia or any other Wiki-based encyclopedia for neuroscience?
The NeuroLex is interested in defining the meaning of concepts and not in providing general information about the concept. It is a dictionary rather than an encyclopedia. We want to make explicit the way in which a concept is defined so that it can be consistently applied to data annotation. We aren’t interested in creating the “right” definition of a term like basal ganglia, but to allow the community to tell us the many ways in which it is defined. Thus, we have created a definition template and some policies that allows the user to provide the required information in a form that’s easy for automated agents to understand.
