Since I know that several people are at least thinking about it, I am creating this issue to keep track of ongoing work. Generally, I think it would be great to beyond or instead of the current schemas (which are json schemas) also write the model in the linkML framework. This comes with several perks:
- Json schema can be generated from linkML schemas - implementations relying on json schema wouldn't have to make do without these schemas
- linkML comes with code generators. which means that Python dataclasses or Pydantic classes can be spawned from the model itself. Other language code generators are in the works. This brings the spec/schemas closer to being an actual reference implementation themselves rather than having to rely on implementations to define their own models.
cc @gouttegd @lubianat @clbarnes
Since I know that several people are at least thinking about it, I am creating this issue to keep track of ongoing work. Generally, I think it would be great to beyond or instead of the current schemas (which are json schemas) also write the model in the linkML framework. This comes with several perks:
cc @gouttegd @lubianat @clbarnes