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Add additional way (session-level) for multi-site studies
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Reflecting up on discussion within bids-standard/bids-2-devel#11
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### Option 2: Combining sites/centers into one dataset

Alternatively you can combine data from all sites into one dataset. To identify
which site each subjects comes from you can add a `site` column in the
Alternatively you can combine data from all sites into one dataset.
This can be done in two ways:


#### Option 2.a: Collate sites at subject level

To identify which site each subjects comes from you can add a `site` column in the
`participants.tsv` file indicating the source site. This solution allows you to
analyze all of the subjects together in one dataset. One caveat is that subjects
analyze all subjects together in one dataset. One caveat is that subjects
from all sites will have to have unique labels. To enforce that and improve
readability you can use a subject label prefix identifying the site. For example
`sub-NUY001`, `sub-MIT002`, `sub-MPG002` and so on. Remember that hyphens and
underscores are not allowed in subject labels.

#### Option 2.b: Use different sessions for different sites

In case of studies such as "Traveling Human Phantom" it is possible to incorporate site within session label.
For example `sub-human1/ses-NUY`, `sub-human1/ses-MIT`, `sub-phantom1/ses-NUY`, `sub-phantom1/ses-MIT` and so on.

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