Steering Group minutes 2023/07/06

Date: Thursday, July 6th, 2023

Topic	Relevant Links
Derivatives output - internal review before release for comments?	BIDS_derivatives_guidelines
Imaging Neuroscience Response regarding BIDS ‘badge’	(see email from Steve Smith) “Thanks for this - hopefully we all agree that using BIDS is a good idea where practical, and should be encouraged. The best thing would be for BIDS (committee etc) to encourage authors to be very clear and explicit (eg in Methods text) when BIDS has been used, just as with the many other important aspects of the methodology used in a given paper. At Imaging Neuroscience we would have no problem at all in authors being clear about their use of BIDS. We couldn't have a "front page badge" because that would risk an overwhelming number of similar requests, but I think the important thing is to explicitly mention use of BIDS in the main text. “
BIDS impact	Update: BIDS grant writing kit
Harmonizing Gdrive folders	BIDS Maintainers GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1qCx4Zopmz7IyLpi8KdrSqIdfpb-bELsV BIDS Steering Group GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1afNWTxsKc82mD0zEwlm5GdodcNRmogp4

Present: Ariel Rokem, Cyril Pernet, Yaroslav Halchenko, Eric Earl

Guest: n/a

NOTES

Derivatives output - internal review before release

• Wanting to change the atlas BEP - this is more of a space we use to segment different tissues.

• Suggestion to change the “Atlas” naming to “Parcellation”

  • Do we need to introduce a new term? We could stick with p-seg (probabilistic) and d-seg (deterministic)

• Should we add this Derivatives output to the website?

  • Where should it go? Create a PR or multiple PRs?

• Suggestion: integrate the BIDS derivatives guidelines piecemeal into the BID general derivatives spec

  • Maybe not the BEPs table info - table could go to the BIDs extensions

Imaging Neuroscience Response regarding BIDS ‘badge’

• Turn the conversation around

  • Example: include a checklist (or guidelines) for reviewers to ensure BIDS is compliant

  • Ask for how the BIDS community/steering co. can be helpful to improve BIDS review process

  • This could be comparable to Nature’s code review

• Ariel will reply to Steve Smith with this suggestion

  • Suggestions: If Imaging neuroscience is amenable, then we could also post the guidelines on the BIDS website for wider use and adoption of these reviewer guidelines.

BIDS impact

Zotero collection for tracking BIDS related publications, BEPs, etc: [https://www.zotero.org/groups/5111637/bids]{.underline}

The BIDS grant writing kit could be updated

See also this GitHub repo

This info should also be displayed on the BIDS.io website

This should be included in the BIDS github as well.

Overall great feedback for this initial draft -

Suggested to include grant writing boilerplate info about BIDS stats

Add rationale at the beginning of both the [BIDS grant writing kit]{.underline} and [Remi’s github dashboard]{.underline}

Is the BIDS granting writing kit meant to support building the BIDS community or for users to mention BIDS in their grants.

Where can we document the various grants that have been inspired by BIDS? Can we also include a link to the funding proposal
Google Analytics on [Grant writing kit]{.underline} need to be updated:

For visualizing our metrics, we have put together 2 dashboards:

1. the website

2. the specification

Ask BEP025 for update on BIDS website?

Have a run of show for the OHBM Open Science Room BIDS Town Hall (Eric to take this topic to maintainers)