Agenda for (second) May call | Wed 29 4pm / 3pm / 10noon / 7am

[KirstieJane]

Next dev call: Wednesday 29 May at 4pm CEST / 3pm BST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT

All welcome, please see BIDS mailing list for zoom link (or ping @KirstieJane!)

Agenda

The following points are put in place by @KirstieJane after the call on 15 May....they might move around as we develop and discuss the extension 😸

Document merged changes: @KirstieJane & @agahkarakuzu

There are a few changes that are already merged to master but that aren't reflected in the ProposedChangesToSpecification.md file.

• indexable metadata merged in PR Indexable metadata #37 but issue Include indexable_metadata in the specification #26 open until the PCTS doc is updated
• there are a few changes merged in PR Insert descriptions into main text #30 but not captured in the PCTS doc
  • Discussion about why we have justified collecting different scans together under one suffix (eg: MP2RAGE and MPM) needs to be added....for example.

Update the examples: @lazaral, @tiborauer, @ChristophePhillips & @Gilles86

General driving principle is that for each new concept in the specification we have an example in the text (and maybe as a dataset?)

Empty files correctly named: @lazaral

Issues #34 & #46.

Real data in BIDS format: @tiborauer, @ChristophePhillips & @Gilles86

Issue #11.

List of metadata terms

Do the metadata terms that we have listed contain the information needed to run the processing pipelines? Are there any missing?

Run hmri toolbox on BIDS formatted data: @ChristophePhillips

Specifically, can we run the hmri toolbox on BEP001 formatted data? (And get out BEP001 formatted data!)

Field maps: @agahkarakuzu

Expand definition of field maps in specification. Issue #44.

Symbolic links: @KirstieJane

Need to add to the specification something about being able to symlink derivatives files to raw. See #25

• Specifically to allow outputs to be used with current BIDS-Apps.
• In the future, hopefully the BIDS-Apps will be able to take inputs from the derivatives, so this linking is a band-aid to help qMRI researchers get into the BIDS-App ecosystem, not a long term plan 😄

Timeline

It would be GREAT to get a PR open to the main specification before OHBM. Documenting what we have done (and why we have done it) is one of the big steps in getting there.... 💪 Keep up the hard work 🏋️ 🏋️‍♀️ 👾

We'll plan to meet in person at OHBM in the Open Science Room: ohbm/OpenScienceRoom2019#18

[ChristophePhillips]

Hi,
I might be a bit late for the meeting.
Moreover since I'm running behind the clock I haven't sufficiently investigated the MPM data set to provide a nice feedback on how it BIDSifies, if parameters are missing or not matching definitions in BIDS, etc. Sorry about that !
At the latest, I'll do that during the Hackathon in Rome.