Brain Imaging Data Structure

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Published January 27, 2026 | Version 2.3.0
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bids-validator

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco CA
  • 2. Stanford University
  • 3. MIT
  • 4. Google
  • 5. Dartmouth College
  • 6. Research Center Jülich; Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 7. Indiana University
  • 8. Berkeley Institute for Data Science; University of California at Berkeley
  • 9. AA Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA
  • 10. University of Texas at San Antonio
  • 11. Stony Brook University School of Medicine
  • 12. CYCERON imaging plateform, Caen, France
  • 13. Radboud University
  • 14. Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 15. National Institutes of Health
  • 16. Florida International University
  • 17. Pasteur Institute

Description

Changed

  • Render Markdown links as OSC-8 links in terminals where support is detected.

Fixed

  • Exit with a non-zero exit code if nested datasets are validated and found to have errors.

  • Prevent HED check from failing for null values found in sidecar metadata.

New Contributors

  • @bendhouseart made their first contribution in https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator/pull/340

Full Changelog: https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator/compare/2.2.10...2.3.0

Notes

The bids-validator is a software tool to check neuroimaging datasets for adherence to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) format. More information about BIDS can be found at bids.neuroimaging.io.

Files

bids-standard/bids-validator-2.3.0.zip

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator/tree/2.3.0 (URL)

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator