Dr. Matthew Brush (Assistant Professor) received a Chan Zuckerberg/Wellcome Award for his project titled “LinkML: an open data modeling framework”.
The project’s abstract describes the focus of this funded work: “Bringing in new developers is essential to LinkML’s broad uptake and long-term sustainability. To successfully attract and maintain relationships with open-source developers and a growing user base, we will host a community Slack channel; coordinate community meetings; improve developer documentation; improve the LinkML model registry; and improve our long-term sustainability by establishing a stable and interoperable ecosystem for data modeling and nurturing a broad and diverse developer and user community. To address hurdles for non-technical model developers when drafting a mode, we will develop GitHub-based user interfaces to simplify schema authoring for non-technical modelers, and provide a web-based schema syntax validation sandbox for helping new users understand and experiment with the LinkML modeling language. Finally, we will address a long-standing need for ‘transformers’ that permit automated transformation and extension of models. We will support transformers that denormalize a model for fast-querying, create “profiles” of an existing schema; importing classes from many different models into one shared model; and provide additional schema transformation modules for Java, R, Typescript, and others.”