Add PyNWB 4.0.0 release blog post#159
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Announce PyNWB 4.0.0, highlighting HERD external resource annotations and the integration of NWBEP001 (EventsTable) via the NWB 2.10.0 schema. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| HERD provides a standardized way to associate **external resource annotations** with the contents of your NWB file. The most common use case is mapping entries in your data, such as species, brain regions, genotypes, or behavioral conditions, to terms in external ontologies and controlled vocabularies. Instead of recording a free-text label like "mouse," you can link that value to a precise, globally resolvable identifier (for example, an NCBI Taxonomy term), making your data more **machine-readable, interoperable, and FAIR**. | ||
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| To get started, see the new tutorials: [Linking to External Resources (HERD)](https://pynwb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/general/plot_external_resources.html) and [Annotating Multiple Streamed NWB Files with a Single HERD](https://pynwb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/general/resources_streaming.html). |
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I think here we could just link to https://nwb-overview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/external_resources_entity_guide.html
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Looks good to me. Thanks for putting this together |
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I left a few suggestions. Looks great to me. Thanks for putting this together! |
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Adds a news/blog post announcing the PyNWB 4.0.0 release.
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external_resourcesfield onNWBFilefor ontology/external-resource annotations, plus theget_external_resources()helperEventsTable,TimestampVectorData, andDurationVectorDatatypes, the neweventsgroup, andmerge_events_tables()/get_all_events(), delivered via the NWB 2.10.0 schemaget_starting_time()/get_duration()methods, Python 3.14, HDMF ≥6.1.0, pandas 3.0), bug fixes, and breaking changesNotes
2026-06-30(actual GitHub release date) withweight: 1so it appears at the top of the news listimage:field set — happy to add one if a banner asset is provided🤖 Generated with Claude Code