Central Repository for community mappings

[yjmantilla]

One of the ideas was to provide community driven mappings/rules repository.

The relevant bits of information regarding this idea are:

Discussion on #22

Do you see it viable for the user community submit their edited mappings into some kind of central repository?

I think that is possible to do. The important part being that the context where the submitted mapping was applied being explicit so as the user can say "oh, this looks like my case" and tests the mapping to see if any further changes are required.

Regarding central repository, I'm all for it, and it was actually one of my original proposals for the project. Having examples for each EEG instrument will be super useful, and even if we cannot base our heuristics on them, we can indeed try these mapping on the input dataset. Even just referring the user to such an online resource will be useful. Only question is if we can fit it into the timeframe of the current project -- @yjmantilla, do you think Bryan can work on this, or will he be investing his time in a rudimentary GUI in the end?

Discussion on Neurostars

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That is where the automatic suggestions based on mapping provided by the community comes into place – the idea is that the tool will use some heuristics in order to “fill in the gaps” instead of asking the user for constant input. This heuristics can be based on previous BIDS conversions of similar datasets. Our idea is to maintain an online library of mappings used in successful conversions (the mapping from the EEG raw files to the BIDS, i.e. where the JSON fields are taken from? where the BIDS data files are extracted from?), and let the conversion tool consult with it.

@leoBAHM can you take a look into how to do this "central mappings/rules community-driven repository" may be implemented?