BEP 038 - Atlases - Community Review

[bids maintenance]

Dear BIDS Community,

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 https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/discussions/2250. 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: https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/bep038/.
The proposed changes may be found at https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/1714.

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

Sincerely,

The BIDS Maintainers

[bids maintenance]

Hi all,

This is a quick reminder that BEP 038 is open for community review through through this Friday November 21, 2025.

This one has been a long time coming and gone through several phases, so it may not look the same as when you last looked. Please join the discussion at https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/discussions/2250.

Sincerely,

The BIDS Maintainers