Data standard
BIDS
Brain Imaging Data Structure
A community standard for organising and describing neuroimaging and related data (MRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, PET, microscopy, and more). Its rules are published as a machine-readable YAML schema.
Source & access
- homepage bids.neuroimaging.io HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR3/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.44+3
A Accessible FAIR9/12
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)repository HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR5/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)YAML schema+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR7/12
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)v1.11.2 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
- Not applicabledata-standard without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance13/16
- Recency2026-10-22 → 0.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)3 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption9/16
- Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 370 → 4, citations 1845 → 5)+5
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
- Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 24/48 · earned 46/80 → scaled 58 = 58/100 → grade C
Community adoption 3
- OpenNeuro
Required dataset format
Curated by NeuroSchema - fMRIPrep
BIDS App input
Curated by NeuroSchema - MNE-BIDS
EEG/MEG BIDS conversion
Curated by NeuroSchema
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History & changes 6 runs
Score over time
- Score: 58 → 50 (grade C → D) · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
- Evaluated version: v1.11.2 → schema-2.0.1 + commit 8973fdf
- Score: 54 → 58 (grade D → C)
- Evaluated version: schema-2.0.1 + commit 8973fdf → v1.11.2
- Score: 83 → 54 (grade A → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Evaluated version: v1.11.2 → schema-2.0.1 + commit 8973fdf
- Score: 78 → 83 (grade B → A) · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Evaluated version: commit 8973fdf → v1.11.2
- Score: 92 → 78 (grade A → B) · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
- Evaluated version: — → commit 8973fdf
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC | 50 D | 21 | schema-2.0.1 + commit 8973fdf | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC | 58 C | 24 | v1.11.2 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC | 54 D | 24 | schema-2.0.1 + commit 8973fdf | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC | 83 A | 45 | v1.11.2 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC | 78 B | 40 | commit 8973fdf | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC | 92 A | — | — | — | JSON |
Provenance
Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | bids.neuroimaging.io | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 8973fdf, latest tag schema-2.0.1) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.44) | api.crossref.org | 25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC carried forward |
Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments (2016) · doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.44 · 1,845 citations