@effigies @rwblair: The reason that this is failing seems to be that the global variable hedSchemas is not being reset after each complete BIDS dataset. There are two ways to fix this:

1. Reset hedSchemas after each dataset (I don't know where this would be done in the BIDS.)
2. Alternatively, we could introduce a second global variable that is the current version and check that the new HED version is the same as the one in the global variables and skip the complete rebuilding of the schema after each file is read.

What do you advise?

I think the better solution is probably to add some kind of HED validation object (maybe just hedSchemas?) to the dataset context, rather than keeping it as a global variable.

@VisLab I pushed a quick patch. I don't know if it's optimal, but it seems to work, with local tests.

I was uncomfortable with the global variable approach. This is much better. Thanks!