diff --git a/sci-libs/bids-validator/ChangeLog b/sci-libs/bids-validator/ChangeLog
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+*bids-validator-1.2.2 (29 Mar 2019)
+
+  29 Mar 2019;  <chymera@gentoo.org> +bids-validator-1.2.2.ebuild,
+  +metadata.xml:
+  sci-libs/bids-validator: new package ahead of Gentoo Science
diff --git a/sci-libs/bids-validator/Manifest b/sci-libs/bids-validator/Manifest
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+DIST bids-validator-1.2.2.tar.gz 1877722 SHA256 4a1f3d6f92e2c6d3ce7a1eac95a5653d529a08a90a67570094c8b13123bc9b7b SHA512 91e0838d96ff588bbb1d65bb2ba22b57a1c18022882c520929b3dfcb59f2eccc94887c3a25e3d358d9302fab071bc47e3d3efa6eafe4985be77085217c1ea274 WHIRLPOOL a1c08d4e0c3a514fe0b277635a6fadab1021e6c6e012bb63dbf134b03afabe304b6af1ea59bff79d48dad57653911f8851f5e26dca8d830f907f61ddc25fe98b
diff --git a/sci-libs/bids-validator/bids-validator-1.2.2.ebuild b/sci-libs/bids-validator/bids-validator-1.2.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5,3_6} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Validator for the Brain Imaging Data Structure"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	"
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/grabbit[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/num2words[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pandas[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/patsy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sci-libs/nibabel[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sci-libs/scipy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${P}/${PN}"
diff --git a/sci-libs/bids-validator/metadata.xml b/sci-libs/bids-validator/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>horea.christ@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Horea Christian</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		A limited library of helper functions written in Python, the main
+		function of which is to determine whether a file path is compliant
+		with the BIDS specification.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">bids-standard/bids-validator</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>