support for "BIDS model"

[Remi-Gau]

I have started using BIDS model from the BIDS model BEP in the pipeline of our lab because not everyone can use fitlins. :-p

Things are getting to a point where I am thinking to create a function / set of function / class to deal with those (a bit like the analysis module does in pybids).

I think those functionalities would fit better in the bids-matlab repo so I am tempted to work on that here.

My questions are :

• how do people feel about working on things that are not "vanilla / official" BIDS yet like the BIDS model?

  • pros:
    • those BEP offer some standard which is better than no standard
    • this BEP might not change much
    • if pybids does it, so can we (I like the idea of both packages being more in synch)
  • con :
    • we might have to redo some things and potentially break things downstream if people start using bids-matlab once the BEP become official (I think we need to start having versioned releases).

• if we agree to support this, how should it be implemented?

  • suggestion : mimicking the pybids implementation maybe? (that I have not looked at yet)

[apjanke]

those BEP offer some standard which is better than no standard

And the way to end up with a good standard is to have working "reference implementations" for practitioners to play with while the standard is still being developed, so they can give feedback based on actual use. I think having "preview" BEP functionality available in the library (or maybe in an add-on "bids-matlab-bep" library) would probably be good for the community and the standard.

[Remi-Gau]

Potentially let BIDS matlab help with creating the basic JSON for some simple models.

https://bids-standard.github.io/pybids/analysis/index.html#quickstart