Alternative location for raw data

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Alternative location for raw data #16

Closed tsalo closed 6 months ago

tsalo commented 4 years ago

Raw data are currently stored under the root folder of the dataset.

The root folder gets cluttered by sub-<label> subfolders and hides important files such as README and derived data in derivatives.
This also creates an imbalance with source data that are stored in sourcedata and derived data in derivatives. Perhaps raw data could be stored in an (optional?) rawdata subfolder.

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jbteves commented 4 years ago

The current folder hierarchy is inconsistent, as raw root should look identical to the sourcedata root in order to improve ease of comparison between the two and general symmetry.

tsalo commented 4 years ago

It's a little unclear to me what "raw data" refers to here, but I assume it refers to the BIDS dataset. If it is the BIDS dataset, then I like the idea of enforcing a folder structure, when other top-level folders (e.g., sourcedata) are present.

jbteves commented 4 years ago

Ah, yes, I should have specified that I mean the originally converted niftis, rather than dicoms or preprocessed niftis when I gave this my thumbs-up.

yarikoptic commented 6 months ago

BIDS can be used for "study level" dataset ... concept is not really excercised, but someone can have

sourcedata/
   bids/
   dicoms/
derivatives/
  fmriprep-1/
dataset_description.json
README

I filed

https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/1739 now which I think we can even address in BIDS 1.0

yarikoptic commented 6 months ago

as such I would vote to just close this issue in favor of that one back in bids-specification, WDYT @jbteves and @tsalo ?

tsalo commented 6 months ago

Sure!