Get involved in making BIDS better
The easiest way to contribute to BIDS is to ask questions you have about the specification on Neurostars. If your question has a bids tag it will be much easier for others to find the answer.
You can also get involved by answering questions on Neurostars!
You can contribute to the BIDS specification by opening Issues and proposing changes via Pull Requests on GitHub.
To make improvements to the website that you are reading right now, you can also open an Issue and propose changes via Pull Requests at the BIDS website GitHub repository.
There are so many ways to help us build this community. You could help someone else learn the benefits of BIDS, give a talk in your local organization, or build a BIDS App!
The only requirement is that everyone who contributes adheres to our BIDS Code of Conduct.
Thank you for your contributions!
Extending the BIDS specification
The BIDS specification can be extended in a backwards compatible way and will evolve over time. These are accomplished with BIDS Extension Proposals (BEPs), which are community-driven processes.
Do you want to learn more about extending BIDS to a new modality or set of data types? Read the Guide and follow the Submission Process.
You can also contribute to ongoing BIDS Extension Proposals. Below is a table of currently-active BEPs. The “Extension label” column provides a direct link to the documentation.
Please find our latest BEP update presented in the Open Science Room at OHBM.
Note that all of the extension ideas that are not backwards compatible and thus will have to wait for BIDS 2.0 are listed on the Issues page of the bids-2-devel GitHub repository.
Extension | Title | Content | Lead(s) | Last update |
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BEP004 |
Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) |
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Looking for a new leader. |
BEP011 |
Structural preprocessing derivatives |
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Opened pull request. Features:
Need to conform with final Common Derivatives and gather community feedback. |
BEP012 |
Functional preprocessing derivatives |
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Opened the pull request. Features:
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BEP014 |
Affine transformations and nonlinear field warps |
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BEP016 |
Diffusion weighted imaging derivatives |
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BEP017 |
Generic BIDS connectivity data schema |
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BEP020 |
Eye Tracking including Gaze Position and Pupil Size |
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BEP021 |
Common Electrophysiological Derivatives |
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BEP022 |
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) |
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BEP023 |
PET Preprocessing derivatives |
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BEP024 |
Computed Tomography scan (CT) |
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Lead seeking more contributors and experts. |
BEP026 |
Microelectrode Recordings |
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BEP is open to new leadership, see also BEP032 (animal electrophys) |
BEP027 |
BIDS Applications 2.0 |
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BEP028 |
Provenance |
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BEP029 |
Virtual and physical motion data |
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BEP is developing and starting to finalize as discussions concerning example datasets are completed. |
BEP032 |
Animal electrophysiology |
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BEP033 |
Advanced Diffusion Weighted Imaging (aDWI) |
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BEP034 |
Computational modeling |
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BEP Computational Models: PR open for review and discussion here |
BEP035 |
Modular extensions for individual participant data mega-analyses with non-compliant derivatives |
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BEP036 |
Phenotypic Data Guidelines |
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BEP037 |
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) |
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New BEP, collecting community comments and feedback. All collaborators are welcome. |
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BEP038 |
Atlases |
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New BEP, collecting community comments and feedback. All collaborators are welcome. |
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BEP039 |
Dimensionality reduction-based networks |
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New BEP, collecting community comments and feedback. All collaborators are welcome. |
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BEP040 |
Functional Ultrasound (fUS) |
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New BEP, collecting community comments and feedback. All collaborators are welcome. |
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BEP041 |
Statistical Model Derivatives |
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New BEP, collecting community comments and feedback. All collaborators are welcome. |
Completed BEPs
When an extension reaches maturity it is merged into the main body of the specification. Below is a table of BEPs that have been merged.
The references of the final publication for those BEPS can be found in the BIDS specification.
Extension | Title | Content | Lead(s) |
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BEP001 |
Quantitative MRI (qMRI) |
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BEP003 |
Common Derivatives |
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BEP005 |
Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) |
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BEP006 |
Electroencephalography (EEG) |
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BEP007 |
Hierarchical Event Descriptor (HED) Tags |
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BEP008 |
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) |
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BEP009 |
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) |
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BEP010 |
intracranial Electroencephalography (iEEG) |
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BEP018 |
Genetic information |
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BEP030 |
Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) |
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BEP031 |
Microscopy |
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Some proposals that set out to extend the BIDS specification have instead lead to other outcomes such as:
- becoming tools for handling BIDS
- having been merged into other BEPs
- having been dropped from consideration
See the table below:
Extension | Title | Content | Lead(s) | Outcome |
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BEP002 |
BIDS Models Specification |
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Became an independent specification with validator to execute statistical models, with minimal configuration and intervention required from the user. |
BEP013 |
Resting state fMRI derivatives |
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Merged into BEP012 |
BEP015 |
Mapping file |
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Became the File mapper. |
BEP019 |
DICOM Metadata |
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Closed in favor of possible direct support of DICOM within BIDS (see this issue and this pull request). |
BEP025 |
Medical Imaging Data structure (MIDS) |
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Dropped from consideration; smaller parts are potentially to be included into BIDS outside of the BEP |