Bidsme -- bidsifier for multimodal datasets

[nbeliy]

Project info

Title:

bidsme

Project lead:

Nikita Beliy, @nbeliy

Timezone:

UTC+2, Bussels

Hub:

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Description:

One of the great ideas behind BIDS is unification of various modalities in the same dataset, sharing common metadata and providing a self-sufficient dataset ready to analyse. However various bidsificators target only one or two modalities.

Bidsme project has been developed to provide a bidsificator as universal as possible, both in modalities and data formats. The project is based on two main ideas:

• everything that is laboratory-depending (log files, events, demographic info, psychological assessments, format conversions) must be treated via plugins
• Data treated in object-oriented way: master class do the bidsifications, modality sub-class defines the BIDS-related parameters (entities, JSON fields etc...), data-format sub-sub-class implements how to read metadata

Using this approach it is possible to integrate a new modality from scratch in one week, and fully create plugins for a given dataset in few days.

Link to project: https://github.com/CyclotronResearchCentre/bidsme

Mattermost handle: nbeliy

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack The minimum program is to get some long-term collaborators, for now it is one man project, but it becomes too big to be handled alone.

Program maximum is to implement few new modalities, namely MEG, probably create a neat GUI.

Good first issues:

• Incorporate MEG and most popular corresponding data formats
• Rework how sidecar JSON file are created and filled
• Improve plugin framework
• Incorporate bidsified dataset versioning
• Incorporate checks for dataset completeness

Skills:

Language	Level
Python3	confirmed
Unix command line	beginner

Advanced Python3 skills, with understanding of object-oriented programming, including virtual functions

If working on modality, knowledge of such modality, corresponding BIDS section and knowledge of data format

Chat channel: Mattermost channel

Video channel: Please have a look at the Mattermost channel for the URL of the video channel, or alternatively, please contact to @nbeliy.

Slides for project pitch bidsme.pdf

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[Remi-Gau]

hey @nbeliy

I added some labels to this issue.

Make sure you are fine with those or if you want to change or add more.

[nbeliy]

Hi Remi, tags looks fine, there no much more than bids

[nbeliy]

hi @ohbm/project-monitors: My project is ready!

[llevitis]

Hi @nbeliy, thanks for adding this project!! I've added the MEG label as well since you mentioned it in the description. If you by any chance have a logo that you'd like us to use for project advertisement, let me know :)

[DorienHuijser]

Hi @nbeliy, is there an image for your project that you would like to be displayed on the hackathon website? Thanks in advance!

[nbeliy]

Hi all, I took an initiative to attach slides for pitch to the project description. Please tell if it's ok for you. Also, can you add a tag data-managment, I've seen some projects that have it.

Thanks

[nbeliy]

Hi @nbeliy, is there an image for your project that you would like to be displayed on the hackathon website? Thanks in advance!

Hi @DorienHuijser, I don't have any image, but Matthias made a make-shift one for me

[complexbrains]

Dear @nbeliy I removed the video link in your issue to avoid any unwanted interference. I guess you already shared the video link in your Mattermost channel so your issue seems ready to go! Thank you very much :hugs: