Extending the Brain Imaging Data Structure specification to provenance metadata

Provenance allows BIDS dataset to hold information on how they were generated.

Interpreting and comparing scientific results as well as enabling reusable data and analysis output require understanding provenance, i.e. how data were generated and processed. To be useful, the provenance must be comprehensive, understandable, easily communicated, and captured in a machine accessible form. We present a recent extension of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) that aims at describing the provenance of a dataset. This extension was designed as a combination of ergonomics and computability in order to help neuroscientists parsing human readable yet computer generated provenance records.