Standards and Formats

Tools and datasets in the con/serve ecosystem touch a variety of data standards, file formats, and schema definition languages. This taxonomy tracks which standards each tool or concept page involves, making it easy to find everything related to a particular standard.

Domain Standards #

Standards that define how data is organized and described within specific research domains. While the con/serve platform itself is domain-agnostic, the neuroscience ecosystem provides the most developed examples. See the poster on the ecosystem of standards in neurosciences for an overview of how these standards interrelate.

File Formats #

Structured text formats used for metadata, summaries, and configuration throughout the vault: JSON, JSON-LD, YAML, TSV. These are the working formats that tools produce and consumers read.

Schema Languages #

Languages for defining and validating metadata schemas. LinkML is the common denominator for custom schemas in the con/serve ecosystem – used by citations-collector, the experience ledger, and aligned with concepts.datalad.org. JSON Schema provides runtime validation.