SchemaBlocks at GA4GHconnect

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].

Take-aways from the Meeting

Peter Goodhand suggested to proceed over the next months, to work on the content & format of {S}[B], and use the next GA4GH steering committee call (September 2019) to present the project, for a discussion of a possible integration into the overall GA4GH strategy / roadmap.

Next Steps

• establish a meeting schedule & reach out to participants
• create a “3 level” schema of quality levels, e.g.
  • approved standard (used by GA4GH products after approval process)
  • external, accepted standard
  • playground
• convert existing schema examples to JSON Schema
  • documentation pages from available tools (?) and additionally adapted custom scripting (i.e. modification of current Perl tool) for website

Participants

• Michael Baudis
• Tony Burdett
• Melanie Courtot
• Miro Cupak
• Ian Fore
• Peter Goodhand
• Melissa Haendel
• Ben Hutton
• Melissa Konopko
• Marco Roos
• Robert Grossman
• Monica Munoz-Tores
• Isuru Liyanage