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yarikoptic committed Apr 19, 2024
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Metadata should be included alongside the data in the `.json` and `.tsv` files.
The current list of allowed data file formats:

| **Format** | **Extension(s)** | **Description** |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Neuroscience Information Exchange Format](https://nixio.readthedocs.io) | `.nix` | A generic and open framework with an hdf5 backend and a defined interface to many ephys formats via the [Neo library](https://neo.readthedocs.io). The `.nix` file has to contain a valid Neo structure. |
| [Neurodata Without Borders](http://nwb.org) | `.nwb` | BRAIN Initiative Data Standard based on an hdf5 backend ... |
| **Format** | **Extension(s)** | **Description** |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Neuroscience Information Exchange Format](https://nixio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) | `.nix` | A generic and open framework with an hdf5 backend and a defined interface to many ephys formats via the [Neo library](https://neo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). The `.nix` file has to contain a valid Neo structure. |
| [Neurodata Without Borders](http://www.nwb.org) | `.nwb` | BRAIN Initiative Data Standard based on an hdf5 backend ... |

Both of these formats can also store essential metadata of the datasets.
Some of these need to be duplicated in BIDS `.tsv` and `.json` sidecar files.
Even though the duplication requires additional effort to ensure the consistency of the data, it provides a number of advantages:
- Making the dataset easier for humans to scan as essential information is easily accessible without loading the data files
- The dataset follows the BIDS standard and can benefit from tools building on top of this standard, starting with [bids-validator](https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator).
- It simplifies the separation of data and basic metadata, for example to publish a dataset in a light-weight fashion with access to the data files on request (as implemented by [DataLad](https://datalad.org)).
- It simplifies the separation of data and basic metadata, for example to publish a dataset in a light-weight fashion with access to the data files on request (as implemented by [DataLad](https://www.datalad.org)).

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