diff --git a/docs/impact/index.md b/docs/impact/index.md index f3efe5c1..d4fbe5e3 100644 --- a/docs/impact/index.md +++ b/docs/impact/index.md @@ -1,48 +1,46 @@ -# Impact +# BIDS Impact + +The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is an open global community driving the +standardization of neuroscience data across a broad and growing range of modalities +and health research disciplines. First released in June 2016, it is supported by a +worldwide research network and endorsed by organizations like the International +Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility ([INCF](https://www.incf.org/)). + +BIDS encompasses: + +- Over 40 domain-specific and modality-specific technical specifications across +scientific and technical domains. +- 100+ sample data models for BIDS specifications in +[bids-examples](https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-examples). Read more about +the [BIDS specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/). +- 2000 open datasets across repositories including +[OpenNeuro](https://www.openneuro.org). Read more about [BIDS Datasets](/docs/datasets/index.md). +- Open software conversion and analytics tools, and global infrastructure for +collaborating on emerging standards in neuroscience +[Poldrack, et al, 2024](https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/imag_a_00103/119672/The-past-present-and-future-of-the-brain-imaging). +- ~30,000 annual website visits from a very large community of neuroscience researchers +actively consulting the BIDS specifications (April 2023-24). +- Over 300 BIDS contributors currently supporting and maintaining BIDS community +resources and tools. +- Open working processes through online collaborative tools including GitHub, +GitHub Pages, ReadTheDocs, Google Docs, and OSF. + +The BIDS core steering and maintainers groups work with the community to optimize open +adherence to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, +[Wilkinson, et al, 2016](https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618)) and to actively +lower barriers to adoption. -This document intends to convey how the BIDS Steering and Maintainers Group can -support your proposed BIDS grant. In an effort to express the impact of BIDS in -the brain imaging community, we have shared several of our traffic metrics. - -## How the BIDS team can help you - -If you are in the process of putting together a grant, **please email/message -the pillar lead** that is most closely associated with your proposed grant so we -may help support this. Our organization is structured into 3 pillars: standard, -tools, and collaboration. - -The respective leads are: - -- Stefan Appelhoff ([stefan.appelhoff@mailbox.org](mailto:stefan.appelhoff@mailbox.org)), -- Chris Markiewicz ([markiewicz@stanford.edu](mailto:markiewicz@stanford.edu)) - -Our range of support covers activities such as: meeting with the Steering and -Maintainers Groups to assisting with connecting you with other BIDS grant -writers or related initiatives to receiving a letter of support from the -Steering Group. - -Regarding **requesting a letter of support** - please submit a drafted letter of -support to the collaboration lead (???) so we may review internally. - -Please include how you plan on giving back to the BIDS community. The primary -mechanism is to support a member of your team to become a BIDS Maintainer. -Letters of support are approved by the Steering Group. This process may take 2-4 -weeks to complete. - -We kindly ask you to please **share your grant online** - successful or not. -This will signal to the rest of the community what avenues we have pursued and -what our fellow colleagues are planning on doing next. These can be grants that -directly extend our support into a new domain, grants that help BIDS (for example -OpenNeuro), or unsuccessful grant applications. - -For example, please find our [NIH-R24 Brain Initiative BIDS-Derivatives grant](https://osf.io/c3dgx/). - -A listing of the previous grants can be found [here](../collaboration/acknowledgments.md) - -## dashboards +## Measuring BIDS Impact ### Datasets +Over the years, the number of shared datasets available to the public has +greatly increased. At its heart, adoption of the BIDS standard across datasets +aids in the sharing of data and collaboration of research through the standardization +of descriptive files names and the organization of data. BIDS organized datasets are +available through public repositories such as [Openneuro.org](https://openneuro.org/) +and the number of publicly available BIDS datasets continues to grow every year. + @@ -51,9 +49,10 @@ https://facelessuser.github.io/pymdown-extensions/extensions/snippets/#snippets- ### Citation Count -BIDS references are centralized in a [zotero group](https://www.zotero.org/groups/5111637/bids) - -You can also find them [in the specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#citing-bids) +As the adoption of the BIDS standard across neuroimaging datasets has grown, so have +citations for work that uses BIDS data and BIDS apps. To aid in searching for publications +relevant to the BIDS standard, we have included some examples of BIDS references that are +centralized in a [zotero group](https://www.zotero.org/groups/5111637/bids) @@ -215,6 +231,44 @@ As of July 1, 2020, we have 183 people signed up for our [BIDS email list](https://forms.gle/JFo2aEkYbKY4EbmE6) and 412 members on our [google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bids-discussion). + +## How the BIDS team can help you + +If you are in the process of putting together a grant, **please email/message +the pillar lead** that is most closely associated with your proposed grant or the +BIDS maintainers email ([bids.maintenance@gmail.com](mailto:bids.maintenance@gmail.com)) +so we may help support this. Our organization is structured into 3 pillars: standard, +tools, and collaboration. + +Our range of support covers activities such as: meeting with the Steering and +Maintainers Groups to assisting with connecting you with other BIDS grant +writers or related initiatives to receiving a letter of support from the +Steering Group. + +Regarding **requesting a letter of support** - please submit a drafted letter of +support to the collaboration lead or the BIDS maintainers email +([bids.maintenance@gmail.com](mailto:bids.maintenance@gmail.com)) so we may review internally. + +Please include how you plan on giving back to the BIDS community. The primary +mechanism is to support a member of your team to become a BIDS Maintainer. +Letters of support are approved by the Steering Group. This process may take 2-4 +weeks to complete. + +We kindly ask you to please **share your grant online** - successful or not. +This will signal to the rest of the community what avenues we have pursued and +what our fellow colleagues are planning on doing next. These can be grants that +directly extend our support into a new domain, grants that help BIDS (for example +OpenNeuro), or unsuccessful grant applications. + +For example, please find our [NIH-R24 Brain Initiative BIDS-Derivatives grant](https://osf.io/c3dgx/). + +A listing of the previous grants can be found [here](../collaboration/acknowledgments.md) + +## Citing BIDS in your project +You can find information on citing BIDS standards for specific modalities and +citing BIDS in general +[in the specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#citing-bids) +