The Past, Present, and Future of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)

The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is a community-driven standard for the organization of data and metadata from a growing range of neuroscience modalities. This paper is meant as a history of how the standard has developed and grown over time. We outline the principles behind the project, the mechanisms by which it has been extended, and some of the challenges being addressed as it evolves. We also discuss the lessons learned through the project, with the aim of enabling researchers in other domains to learn from the success of BIDS.

Thomas E. Nichols | Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski | Adam G. Thomas | Christopher J. Markiewicz | Ross W. Blair | Nicole C. Swann | Teon L Brooks | Patrick J. Park | J B Poline | J. M. Saborit-Torres | Yoni K. Ashar | Jon Haitz Legarreta | R. Oostenveld | B. Love | G. Varoquaux | V. Calhoun | R. Poldrack | G. Flandin | C. Honey | A. Laird | G. Nilsonne | C. Pernet | Sylvain Baillet | C. Bénar | C. Rorden | E. Duff | A. Routier | O. Devinsky | Bradley Voytek | Tal Yarkoni | P. Gleeson | G. Hollander | R. Innis | Y. Halchenko | D. Handwerker | T. Okell | D. Keator | A. D. L. Vega | F. Pestilli | M. Nørgaard | A. Rokem | Sulagna Dia Ghosh | M. Schirner | M. Ganz | A. Nikolaidis | G. Guidali | M. Bortoletto | S. Takerkart | Martin Szinte | L. Pollonini | A. Gillman | T. Spisák | Guiomar Niso | M. Boudreau | T. Salo | A. Rockhill | E. Dupre | Camille Maumet | Dejan Draschkow | A. Karakuzu | Gregory Kiar | Samuel Guay | A. Lazari | G. Bertazzoli | Horea-Ioan Ioanas | G. Mazzamuto | Giuseppe Gallitto | Bálint Kincses | P. Herholz | S. Appelhoff | Franklin W. Feingold | Rémi Gau | Anthony Galassi | Oscar Esteban | Alessio Giacomel | J. Cohen-Adad | Alexandre Gramfort | S. Meisler | Nell Hardcastle | P. Raamana | Henk‐Jan Mutsaerts | F. Castelli | Shashank Bansal | Mateusz Pawlik | Tibor Auer | Leandro Beltrachini | Suyash Bhogawar | Marta Bortoletto | Patricia Clement | Alexander L Cohen | Sasha D'Ambrosio | M. D. L. iglesia-Vay'a | Arnaud Delorme | Eric Earl | James Gholam | Dora Hermes | Andrew Jahn | Jonathan C. Lau | Adam Li | Xiangrui Li | Bradley C. Love | Hanzhang Lu | Mark Mikkelsen | Eduard Ort | Jan Petr | Christophe Phillips | Petra Ritter | Gaia Rizzo | Kay A. Robbins | Christine Rogers | Robert E. Smith | Julia Sprenger | Bertrand Thirion | Sajjad Torabian | Julius Welzel | Martin Wilson | A. Giacomel | Arnaud Delorme | Hanzhang Lu | Ariel S. Rokem | J. Gholam | S. L. Meisler

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