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

TL;DR

This paper reviews the development, principles, and challenges of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), a community standard for organizing neuroscience data, highlighting lessons learned to guide future standardization efforts.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive history and analysis of BIDS's evolution, principles, and challenges, offering insights for standard development in neuroscience and other fields.

Findings

BIDS has successfully standardized neuroscience data organization.

The project has evolved through community-driven extensions.

Lessons learned can inform future data standardization efforts.

Abstract

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.