title: Lost in localization: a minimal middle way.
abstract: Commentaries by Derrfuss and Mar (Derrfuss, J., Mar, R., 2009. Lost in localization: the need for a universal coordinate database. Neuroimage.) and Nielsen (Nielsen, F.A., 2009. Lost in localization: a solution with neuroinformatics 2.0? Neuroimage.) outline the need for a universal coordinate database and some possible approaches to creating one. I highlight the issue of minimal or maximal database scope and advocate a bottom-up approach to this problem.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. antonia.hamilton@nottingham.ac.uk
authors.forename: Antonia F de C
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012984:Software