We are pleased to announce the community review period for BEP 038 - Atlases!
BEP038 extends the BIDS standard to describe BIDS Derivatives datasets that are intended to be distributed as atlases and/or templates. It introduces new organizational and metadata features, but it does not introduce new data file types.
Community review is open from November 10 - November 21, 2025.
To review this BEP, please visit Community Review: BEP038 - Atlases and Templates · bids-standard/bids-specification · Discussion #2250 · 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 BEP-038: Atlases by effigies · Pull Request #1714 · bids-standard/bids-specification · GitHub.
Thank you for helping BIDS to be a useful resource for a growing community of researchers.