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[FIX] clarify MEG empty-room recording naming conventions #480

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## Empty-room MEG recordings

Empty-room MEG recordings capture the environment and system noise. Their
collection is RECOMMENDED, before/during/after each session. This data is stored
inside a subject folder named `sub-emptyroom`. The `session label` SHOULD be
that of the date of the empty-room recording (e.g. `ses-YYYYMMDD`). The
`scans.tsv` file containing the date/time of the acquisition SHOULD also be
included. Hence, users will be able to retrieve the empty-room recording that
best matches a particular session with a participant, based on date/time of
recording.
Empty-room MEG recordings capture the environmental and recording system's
noise.
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In the context of BIDS it is RECOMMENDED to perform an empty-room recording for
each experimental session.
It is RECOMMENDED to store the empty-room recording inside a subject folder
named `sub-emptyroom`.
The label for the `task-<label>` entity in the empty-room recording SHOULD be
set to `noise`.
If a `session-<label>` entity is present, its label SHOULD be the date of the
empty-room recording in the format `YYYYMMDD`, i.e., `ses-YYYYMMDD`.
The `scans.tsv` file containing the date and time of the acquisition SHOULD
also be included.
The rationale is that this naming scheme will allow users to easily retrieve the
empty-room recording that best matches a particular experimental session, based
on date and time of the recording.
It should be possible to query empty-room recordings just like usual subject
recordings, hence all metadata sidecar files (such as the `channels.tsv`) file
SHOULD be present as well.

Example:

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meg/
sub-emptyroom_ses-20170801_task-noise_meg.ds
sub-emptyroom_ses-20170801_task-noise_meg.json
sub-emptyroom_ses-20170801_task-noise_channels.tsv
```

`TaskName` in the `*_meg.json` file should be set to "noise".