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Learn BIDS Manager
Fifteen chapters that take one sample dataset from raw recordings to a dataset ready to share. Each chapter starts where the previous one stopped.
How the course works
The course uses one dataset from start to finish: the multimodal sample, a single participant's folder with MRI, MR spectroscopy, PET, EEG, MEG and eye-tracking recordings. Every figure and every number in the chapters comes from BIDS Manager 1.5.0 running on that sample, so what you see on your screen should match what you read.
Work through the chapters in order. Each one says at the top what state it expects the project to be in, and ends with a short recap of what changed. If you come back after a break, the recap of the last chapter you finished tells you where you are.
The chapters
Part 1. Before anything is converted
- 1. BIDS in ten minutes What a BIDS dataset looks like: subjects, sessions, datatypes, file names, sidecars and tables.
- 2. Projects Create the project the course works in, and learn what BIDS Manager keeps inside it.
- 3. Scanning raw data Point a scan at the sample's raw folder and read what it found.
- 4. The scan table One row per recording: read it, edit it, and set many rows at once.
- 5. Naming recordings How each recording gets its BIDS name, and how to change one.
- 6. Checking before you convert See the dataset the conversion will write, and what differs between subjects.
Part 2. Converting
Part 3. Working on the dataset
- 9. Validating in the Editor Check the dataset against the standard and go to each finding.
- 10. Editing metadata Edit sidecars and tables, search them, and undo.
- 11. Changing a dataset's shape Rename entities, add or remove them, create sessions, delete, and keep every reference right.
- 12. Viewing data Images, time courses, signals and spectra in the viewers.
- 13. Checking image quality The fast quality check of anatomical, diffusion and functional images, and of MEG and EEG.
Part 4. Finishing
When you want the reason, not the step
The chapters say what to do and what to check. Where a step depends on an idea worth understanding on its own, they link to a page under Concepts: how names are decided, how fieldmaps are linked to the runs they correct, where metadata values come from, and what the project folder records. Every control the chapters mention is also listed in the Reference.