BIDS community review for BEP 028: Provenance

We are pleased to announce the community review period for BEP 028 - Provenance!

BEP028 extends the BIDS standard to describe the provenance of BIDS datasets. It introduces new organizational and metadata features.

Community review is open from April 20 - May 1, 2026.

To review this BEP, please visit Community Review: BEP028 - Provenance · bids-standard/bids-specification · Discussion #2405 · GitHub. Carefully read the procedure and then provide your review. Note that your vote, once cast, cannot be changed. (To create a GitHub account, visit https://github.com/signup.)

The draft specification may be found at: Brain Imaging Data Structure 1.10.2-dev.
The proposed changes may be found at https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/2099.

Thank you for helping BIDS to be a useful resource for a growing community of researchers.