BIDS explains what the standard is. This page is about the step before that: turning what actually came off the scanner — a directory of DICOMs with inscrutable series descriptions — into a valid BIDS dataset.
This conversion is the most common place a project stalls, and it is almost never mentioned in methods sections. The tools are mature, but each requires you to write a mapping from your scanner’s naming conventions to BIDS entities, and that mapping is specific to your site and protocol.
Related¶
BIDS — the standard itself
Organize your data — the pathway step
Nipoppy — can drive conversion across a whole dataset
DataLad — convert inside a versioned dataset and the conversion itself is recorded