BIDS

Brain Imaging Data Structure (more information in the BIDS starter kit).

Validating BIDS dataset

With docker, you can run this line in the terminal:

docker run -ti --rm -v [path_to_your_toplevel_bids_directory]:/data:ro bids/validator /data

Common issues:

files don’t follow BIDS naming conventions (more info about BIDS file naming)
events.tsv files are missing
participants.tsv is missing
participants.json file is missing or does not describe all variables from the tsv file
dataset_description is missing or there is no name of the dataset or author names in it.
readme file is missing or too short
…

OSF

Upload your dataset to OSF using osfclient (user’s guide). This is a useful python-based package to uploading data in bulk to OSF, especially because you cannot upload folders to OSF projects via browser.

Installation:

pip3 install osfclient

Upload a file to an OSF project

osf -p <projectid> -u yourOSFacount@example.com upload local/file.txt remote/path.txt

Upload a folder (recursively) to an OSF project

osf -p <projectid> -u yourOSFacount@example.com upload -r local/folder remote/path

Set your OSF acctount password

Set a password so you don’t have to enter it each time you upload data

export OSF_PASSWORD=yourpassword