In this press release, GA4GH announces the recent changes to the GA4GH leadership contributors.
@mbaudis 2018-12-12: more ...
Just before the holiday season, a first telecon brought together people form different areas of GA4GH to have a first discussion about the scope, concepts and technical ground rules of SchemaBlocks as a potential GA4GH project.
@mbaudis 2018-12-20: more ...
At the January Steering Committee Meeting of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, Michael Baudis presented the concepts and history of the Schemablocks initiative. The slides can be accessed through the link below.
@mbaudis 2018-12-20: more ...
During the first day of the 2019 GA4GHconnect meeting we had an open discussion session about the perceived need and future directions of the {S}[B] initiative. The slides used in the discussion recapitulate some of the reasoning and open questions related to {S}[B].
@mbaudis | @MKonopko | @mcourtot 2019-04-29: more ...
In a “GA4GH Namespace Discussion” telecon on 2019-08-22, initiated by GKS and with the participation of different work stream and project leads, it was agreed that newly generated identifiers created and maintained in the “GA4GH ecosystem” should use a general ga4gh prefix, and not create scoped prefixes.
For more information about CURIEs and their use in GA4GH schemas please visit the “identifiers and CURIEs” page.
@mbaudis 2019-08-22: more ...
Recently, repository structure, schema formats and the amount of schema blocks represented in the repositories have seen some maturation and expansion. The current setup is closing in on moving from an “experimental state” towards production readiness, i.e. a stable format for general document structure, canonical links and also frozen representation of first core schemas.
@mbaudis 2019-08-26: more ...
At the Discovery work stream session of the 7th GA4GH plenary, several presentations were centered around SchemaBlocks or the use of it as a resource to drive project development:
@mbaudis 2019-10-21: more ...
At the January 28 call of the Human Cell Atlas, Michael Baudis gave a brief introduction about the SchemaBlocks project and its role in GA4GH.
@mbaudis 2020-01-28: more ...
Isuru Liyanage and Melanie Courtot have created a first version of an {S}[B] SchemaBlocks representation for the DUO Data Use Ontology standard:
@mbaudis 2020-02-28: more ...
The tools for schema conversion have received a major update, for greater flexibility and easier extension. Some of the main features:
schemablocks-tools
repositorysb-this-project
repositories@mbaudis 2021-03-15: more ...
After some hiatus the sbSchemaParser.pl tool has received another update for
greater flexibility, especially when handling complex/nested schema source
directories:
schema dirs$id parameter not strictly required; schema anmd version can be provided
from file name and through the config file, respectivelyThe first runs with the new tool have been for the Beacon 2.0.0-draft.4 version of the sb-beacon-api.
The overall structure of the generated files and paths remains the same.
@mbaudis 2022-02-09: more ...