HED test datasets

This repository contains a set of HED-annotated datasets in BIDS-compatible format. These datasets can be useful for:

1. Writing lightweight software tests.

2. Serving as examples of how to incorporate HED into BIDS-structured data.

The datasets have empty raw data files. However, some data headers containing the metadata are still intact.

Datasets that are derived from datasets on OpenNeuro are identified by their OpenNeuro accession number plus ‘s’ plus a modifier. Datasets focused on particular a particular modality may have the modality prepended to the name. For example, eeg_ds003645s identifies a reduced dataset derived the EEG data in OpenNeuro dataset ds003645. The suffix modifier indicates what this dataset is designed to test.

Dataset	Description
eeg_ds003645s_hed	Short-form tags with definitions.
eeg_ds003645s_hed_inheritance	Multiple sidecars with inheritance.
eeg_ds003645s_hed_library	Multiple HED library schemas.
eeg_ds003645s_hed_longform	Long-form with definitions.
fmri_soccer21_hed	Annotation with single column.

eeg_ds003645s_hed

This dataset was originally released as a multi-modal dataset by

Detailed case study in using HED for tagging:

Robbins, K., Truong, D., Appelhoff, S., Delorme, A., & Makeig, S. (2021, May 7). Capturing the nature of events and event context using Hierarchical Event Descriptors (HED). BioRxiv, 2021.05.06.442841. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.06.442841

eeg_ds003645s_hed_inheritance

This is eeg_ds003645s_hed_inheritance

eeg_ds003645s_hed_library

This dataset is designed to test the HED library schema facility. It uses HED 8.0.0 as a base schema and as the “test” library schema. In addition, this dataset uses the SCORE library version 1.0.0 as a library schema.

The schema used are specified in the dataset_description.json file using the proposed format.

eeg_ds003645s_hed_longform

This dataset is used to test that tools work with either long-form or short-form HED tags.

fmri_soccer21_hed

This dataset is designed to illustrate a basic FMRI pipeline.

BIDS validation

For general information on the bids-validator, including installation, configuration, and usage, see the bids-validator README file.

Example: The following command validates the eeg_ds003645s_hed dataset:

bids-validator eeg_ds003645s_hed --config.ignore=99

This example assumes that npm and the bids-validator npm package have been installed on the local machine. The command is run from the directory above the dataset root directory. The --config.ignore=99 flag tells the bids-validator to ignore empty data files rather than to report the empty file error.

For additional information on BIDS validation, see the bids-examples.