Request for comments on first Bioschemas release to schema.org

Hi All,

First I would like to thank everyone for the active discussions that we had at the face-to-face meeting in May, and subsequently on the mailing list and issue tracker.

As proposed at the face-to-face meeting, and agreed by the management group, we are aiming to push a small collection of types for inclusion into Schema.org<http://schema.org/>. We would like to make the submission to Schema.org<http://schema.org/> in the next few days, and plan to make another submission with more types in the next couple of months.

Over the last 24 hours, I have updated the types and properties available on the draft types site to include the 7 types that we would like to include in the first release*. I have for now hidden the types that are not included in this release so as to avoid any confusion and to ensure that we don’t have dependencies on types that are not included.

The types that are to be included are:
BioChemEntity
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/BioChemEntity

BioSample
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/BioSample

ChemicalSubstance
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/ChemicalSubstance

Gene
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/Gene

MolecularEntity
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/MolecularEntity

Protein
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/Protein

Taxon
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/Taxon

(Please note that we have a limited quota on the google cloud platform where these are hosted and you may get a 500 error message when we have exceeded that quota. The quota gets reset every 24 hours.)

We welcome your feedback on these types either as a response to this message on the mailing list or via the following GitHub issue
https://github.com/BioSchemas/specifications/issues/321


Best regards

Alasdair

*The exclusion of a type within this first release does not mean that those types are any less important, we needed to ensure that we had a manageable amount for the release.

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Alasdair J G Gray
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School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

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