diff --git a/.github/workflows/validation.yml b/.github/workflows/validation.yml
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+---
+name: Validation
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  # Validate CITATION.cff
+  validate_cff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: 3
+    - name: Validate CITATION.cff
+      run: pipx run cffconvert --validate
diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
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--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,176 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "title": "bids-validator",
-  "description": "The bids-validator is a software tool to check neuroimaging datasets for adherence to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) format. More information about BIDS can be found at <a href=\"https://bids.neuroimaging.io\">bids.neuroimaging.io</a>.",
-  "keywords": [
-    "BIDS",
-    "brain imaging data structure",
-    "neuroscience",
-    "neuroimaging",
-    "neuroinformatics"
-  ],
-  "creators": [
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Stanford University",
-      "name": "Blair, Ross",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-3007-1056"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Michael, Zack"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Google",
-      "name": "Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J.",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-3321-7583"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Squishymedia",
-      "name": "Hardcastle, Nell",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-3837-0707"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Hobson-Lowther, Teal"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Nishikawa, David"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Bhogawar, Suyash",
-      "affiliation": "Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco CA"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany",
-      "name": "Appelhoff, Stefan",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-8002-0877"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "AA Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA",
-      "name": "Jas, Mainak",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-3199-9027"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Grass, Brian"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Stanford University",
-      "name": "Markiewicz, Christopher J.",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-6533-164X"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Berkeley Institute for Data Science; University of California at Berkeley",
-      "name": "Holdgraf, Chris",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-2391-0678"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Jones, Alexander",
-      "affiliation": "University of Texas at San Antonio",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-2067-3862"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Goyal, Rohan"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Oostenveld, Robert",
-      "affiliation": "Radboud University",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-1974-1293"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Noack, Gregory"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Triplett, William"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Naveau, Mikaël",
-      "affiliation": "CYCERON imaging plateform, Caen, France",
-      "orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4685-0057"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Zito, Matthew",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-2704-0742"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Durnez, Joke"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Pasteur Institute",
-      "name": "Traut, Nicolas",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-3277-6316"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Sethi, Parul"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Dartmouth College",
-      "name": "Halchenko, Yaroslav O.",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-3456-2493"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Papadopoulos, Dimitri"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Wexler, Joseph"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Florida International University",
-      "name": "Salo, Taylor",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-9813-3167"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Thomas, Adam"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Research Center Jülich; Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf",
-      "name": "Hanke, Michael",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-6398-6370"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Indiana University",
-      "name": "Hayashi, Soichi",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-3641-3491"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Warren, David E."
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Patterson, Dianne"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Macleod, Duncan"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf",
-      "name": "Ort, Eduard",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-5546-3561"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Feingold, Franklin",
-      "affiliation": "Department of Psychology, Stanford University",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-6533-2909"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "MIT",
-      "name": "Christian, Horea",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-7037-2449"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Stony Brook University School of Medicine",
-      "name": "Kaczmarzyk, Jakub",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-5544-7577"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "Stanford University",
-      "name": "Poldrack, Russell",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-6755-0259"
-    },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "National Institutes of Health",
-      "name": "Riddle, Travis",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-8160-3986"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Zulfikar, Wazeer"
-    }
-  ],
-  "license": "mit-license",
-  "upload_type": "software"
-}
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/CITATION.cff
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+# schema: https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/main/schema-guide.md
+
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+
+title: bids-validator
+
+license: MIT
+
+type: software
+
+repository-code: https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator
+
+message: The bids-validator is a software tool to check neuroimaging datasets for adherence to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) format. More information about BIDS can be found at <a href=\"https://bids.neuroimaging.io\">bids.neuroimaging.io</a>.
+
+identifiers:
+  - description: Releases on Zenodo
+    type: doi
+    value: 10.5281/zenodo.3688707
+
+keywords:
+  - brain imaging data structure
+  - BIDS
+  - neuroscience
+  - neuroimaging
+  - neuroinformatics
+
+authors:
+  - family-names: Appelhoff
+    given-names: Stefan
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8002-0877
+  - family-names: Bhogawar
+    given-names: Suyash
+    affiliation: Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco CA
+  - family-names: Blair
+    given-names: Ross
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3007-1056
+    affiliation: Stanford University
+  - family-names: Horea
+    given-names: Christian
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7037-2449
+    affiliation: MIT
+  - family-names: Durnez
+    given-names: Joke
+  - family-names: Feingold
+    given-names: Franklin
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6533-2909
+  - family-names: Gau
+    given-names: Rémi
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-9767  
+  - family-names: Gorgolewski
+    given-names: Krzysztof J.
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3321-7583
+    affiliation: Google
+  - family-names: Goyal
+    given-names: Rohan
+  - family-names: Grass
+    given-names: Brian
+  - family-names: Halchenko
+    given-names: Yaroslav O.
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3456-2493
+    affiliation: Dartmouth College
+  - family-names: Hanke
+    given-names: Michael
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6398-6370
+    affiliation: Research Center Jülich; Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
+  - family-names: Hardcastle
+    given-names: Nell
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3837-0707
+  - family-names: Hayashi
+    given-names: Soichi
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3641-3491
+    affiliation: Indiana University
+  - family-names: Hobson-Lowther
+    given-names: Teal
+  - family-names: Holdgraf
+    given-names: Chris
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2391-0678
+    affiliation: Berkeley Institute for Data Science; University of California at Berkeley
+  - family-names: Jas
+    given-names: Mainak
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-9027
+    affiliation: AA Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA
+  - family-names: Jones
+    given-names: Alexander
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2067-3862
+    affiliation: University of Texas at San Antonio
+  - family-names: Kaczmarzyk
+    given-names: Jakub
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5544-7577
+    affiliation: Stony Brook University School of Medicine
+  - family-names: Macleod
+    given-names: Duncan
+  - family-names: Markiewicz
+    given-names: Christopher J.
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6533-164X
+    affiliation: Stanford University
+  - family-names: Michael
+    given-names: Zack
+  - family-names: Naveau
+    given-names: Mikaël
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4685-0057
+    affiliation: CYCERON imaging plateform, Caen, France
+  - family-names: Nishikawa
+    given-names: David
+  - family-names: Noack
+    given-names: Gregory
+  - family-names: Oostenveld
+    given-names: Robert
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1974-1293
+    affiliation: Radboud University
+  - family-names: Ort
+    given-names: Eduard
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5546-3561
+    affiliation: Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
+  - family-names: Papadopoulos
+    given-names: Dimitri
+  - family-names: Patterson
+    given-names: Dianne
+  - family-names: Poldrack
+    given-names: Russell
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-0259
+    affiliation: Stanford University
+  - family-names: Riddle
+    given-names: Travis
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-3986
+    affiliation: National Institutes of Health
+  - family-names: Salo
+    given-names: Taylor
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9813-3167
+    affiliation: Florida International University
+  - family-names: Sethi
+    given-names: Parul
+  - family-names: Thomas
+    given-names: Adam
+  - family-names: Traut
+    given-names: Nicolas
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3277-6316
+    affiliation: Pasteur Institute
+  - family-names: Triplett
+    given-names: William
+  - family-names: Warren
+    given-names: David E.
+  - family-names: Wexler
+    given-names: Joseph
+  - family-names: Zito
+    given-names: Matthew
+    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2704-0742
+  - family-names: Zulfikar
+    given-names: Wazeer