The BIDS connectivity project - finalization of BEPs

Title

Short description and the goals for the OHBM BrainHack

Besides BIDS' success, expansion, and description of multiple data modalities, gaps still exist in developing the standard to effectively support the process of scientific results reporting. Among others, this prominently refers to data obtained through and during connectivity analyses. This comprises brain parcellations, connectivity maps, structural and functional connections, major white matter tracts, diffusion signal models, white matter tractograms and tractometry, as well as networks based on dimensionality reduction. Sharing processed data and features in addition to raw and minimally processed data is critical to accelerating scientific discovery. This is because substantial effort, software, and hardware instrumentation, and know-how are required to bring raw data to a usable state. The aim of the present project is to extend the BIDS standard to encompass derivatives resulting from experiments related to macroscopic brain connectivity (U.S. National Institutes of Health NIMH R01-MH126699). During the Brainhack, we would like to

Finalize the existing BEPs (BEP17 - Relationship matrices, BEP38 - Atlases, BEP39 - Dimensionality reduction-based networks)
Gather feedback from experts, users, tool developers, ie everyone!
Discuss next steps, e.g. software integrations

Link to the Project

https://pestillilab.github.io/bids-connectivity/

Image/Logo for the OHBM brainhack website

https://pestillilab.github.io/bids-connectivity/img/logo.svg

Project lead

Peer Herholz, GitHub: peerherholz, discord: peerherholz Franco Pestilli, GitHub: francopestilli, discord: Ariel Rokem, GitHub: arokem, discord

Main Hub

Seoul

Link to the Project pitch

No response

Other hubs covered by the leaders

[X] Seoul
[ ] Hybrid (Asia / Pacific)
[ ] Hybrid (Europe / Middle East / Africa)
[ ] Hybrid (Americas)

Skills

Experience with one of our covered data modalities and respective analysis software packages would be helpful: s/fMRI, dMRI, PET, MEG, i/EEG. Additionally, knowledge of BIDS would come in handy. However, these are not requirements: we're happy to welcome everyone interested.

Good first issues

No response

Twitter summary

Interested in Brain connectivity and FAIR data? The BIDS connectivity project might be of interest to you! During the Brainhack we will discuss work on the different connectivity-related BIDS Extension Proposals (BEPs) and welcome support from all interested parties!

Short name for the Discord chat channel (~15 chars)

bids-connectivity

Please read and follow the OHBM Code of Conduct

[X] I agree to follow the OHBM Code of Conduct during the hackathon

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