From 8d00f7a72bac3665046a8704ac23837f733a4566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Remi Gau Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:24:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update common-principles.md --- src/common-principles.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/common-principles.md b/src/common-principles.md index f56f420c08..7d453ebd20 100644 --- a/src/common-principles.md +++ b/src/common-principles.md @@ -289,6 +289,13 @@ A guide for using macros can be found at In this example, where `sourcedata` and `derivatives` are not nested inside `rawdata`, **only the `rawdata` subdirectory** needs to be a BIDS-compliant dataset. + +!!! note + + Note that rawdata here is an arbitrarily-chosen name. + BIDS specifies the contents of a dataset, + not the names of directories containing datasets. + The subdirectories of `derivatives` MAY be BIDS-compliant derivatives datasets (see [Non-compliant derivatives](#non-compliant-derivatives) for further discussion). This specification does not prescribe anything about the contents of `sourcedata`