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 After changes to the schema have been made to a local copy the dereferenced single json file used by the validator will need to be built. The `bidsschematools` python package does this. It can be installed from pypi via pip or a local installation can be made. It lives in the specification repository here https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/tree/master/tools/schemacode
 
-The command to compile a dereferenced schema is `bst -v export --output src/schema.json` (this assumes you are in the root of the bids-specification repo). Once compiled it can be passed to the validator via the `-s` flag, `./bids-validator-deno -s <path to schema> <path to dataset>`
+The command to compile a dereferenced schema is `bst -v export --schema src/schema --output src/schema.json` (this assumes you are in the root of the bids-specification repo). Once compiled it can be passed to the validator via the `-s` flag, `./bids-validator-deno -s <path to schema> <path to dataset>`
 
 
 ## Documentation
 
-The BIDS validator documentation is available on [Read the Docs](https://bids-validator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
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+The BIDS validator documentation is available on [Read the Docs](https://bids-validator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).