Coding data models

The data models are composed of:

Manually contributed

• Json schema describing the technical properties of the model and their descriptions
• Some examples in JSON and JSON-LD (example.json, example.jsonld, example-normalized.json and example-normalized.json)

Optional

• Manually contributed: The authors (CONTRIBUTORS.yaml)
• Manually contributed: Current adopters of the data model (ADOPTERS.yaml)
• Manually contributed: Customization of specifications (notes.yaml)

Automatically generated

• Specification in English (spec.md), in Spanish (spec_ES.md), in German (spec_DE.md), in French (spec_FR.md), in Itialian (spec_IT.md) and in Japanese (spec_JA.md)
• Other examples in CSV
• README.md for the data model
• README.md for the subject model

Templated

• Licensing of the data model (use to be Creative commons 4.0) (LICENSE.md)

You do not have to start from the blank page.

We encourage you to check the contribution manual our templates for all the documents to be included together with a data model. Or the online editor or directly from a keyvalues example or from a csv example.

Recommended steps before submitting a new data model

1.- Review the contribution manual (especially pages 8-16)
2.- Check that your data model validates payloads in key-value format here https://smartdatamodels.org/index.php/check-a-schema-validates-a-payload/
3.- Check that you have properly documented your data model here https://smartdatamodels.org/index.php/data-models-contribution-api/
4.- See a template https://github.com/smart-data-models/data-models/blob/master/templates/dataModel_for_submision/schema.json
5.- See a real valid data model in any of the domains.

And these guidelines