Introduction

Goals  To read two classic papers on BIDS, the first, which introduced BIDS to the world, and the second which explains how BIDS makes it easier to leverage containerized software solutions for processing

Learning Objectives This lesson contributes to the objective to "explain the purpose and implementation of the BIDS standard" by "explaining why the BIDS standard is useful".

Reading 1

• Gorgolewski, K. J., Auer, T., Calhoun, V. D., Craddock, R. C., Das, S., Duff, E. P. et al. (2016). The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments. Scientific Data, 3, 160044-160049. introduced BIDS to the world.

Reading 2

• Gorgolewski, K. J., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Auer, T., Bellec, P., Capotă, M., Chakravarty, M. M. et al. (2017). BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods. 13(3), e1005209-16. explains the importance of containerized BIDS apps (using Docker or Singularity).