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blocks	LinkML - Linked data Modeling Language		template block logo navigation cta navigation-header-w-button header-2 /uploads/linkml-logo_color.png link link_text #jsonld Linked Data link link_text #model Model link link_text #generate Build link link_text #codegen Codegen link link_text #publish Publish url button_text https://github.com/linkml/ GO! template block slug headline content cta image background_image hero-banner-w-image hero-2 features LinkML <br><strong>model your data</strong> LinkML is a general purpose modeling language that can be used with linked data, JSON, and other formalisms enabled url button_text true https://linkml.io/linkml LinkML Documentation image alt_text /uploads/2021/03/30/screen-shot-2021-03-29-at-7-09-55-pm.png Product Shot /uploads/2018/06/21/hero-2-bg.png template block media_alignment slug headline content media content-feature feature-1 Left model <strong>Model your data </strong>easily by authoring YAML files Use the LinkML modeling language to author models for your schemas and data dictionaries.<br><br>LinkML offers features such as as <a href="https://linkml.io/linkml/schemas/inheritance.html" title="reference">flexible inheritance</a>, <a href="https://linkml.io/linkml/schemas/enums.html">semantic enumerations</a>, and <a href="https://linkml.io/linkml/schemas/inlining.html">control of JSON inlining</a>. At the same time, it can be used for simple tasks such as defining data dictionaries. <br><br>See the <a href="https://linkml.io/linkml/schemas/" title="schemas">Modeling Documentation</a> image alt_text /uploads/2021/03/30/screen-shot-2021-03-29-at-7-05-14-pm.png uBuild Blocks Mock-Up template block media_alignment slug headline content media content-feature feature-1 Right jsonld Linked Data is <strong>JSON-ready</strong> Generate JSON-Schema and JSON-LD contexts for semantic-web ready and developer-friendly schemas! image alt_text /uploads/2021/03/30/screen-shot-2021-03-29-at-7-49-27-pm.png json-schema screenshot from PyCharm template block slug headline content 1-column-text one-column-1 generate Generate schema artifacts The <a href="https://linkml.io/linkml/generators/index.html">LinkML Generator framework</a> generates downstream artfacts, including JSON-Schema, ShEx, RDF, OWL, GraphQL, and SQL DDL.<br><br>This allows you to use LinkML while continuing to work with other toolchains, e.g. JSON-Schema validators template block media_alignment slug headline content media content-feature feature-1 Right codegen Generate<strong> Python dataclasses</strong> LinkML can be used to generate Python dataclasses.<br></br>The <a href="https://github.com/linkml/linkml-runtime/">LinkML runtime</a> allows these to be automatically loaded/dumped from YAML, JSON, CSV, and RDF.<br><br>Stay tuned for implementations in other languages... image alt_text /uploads/2021/03/30/screen-shot-2021-03-29-at-7-02-30-pm.png Customize Blocks template block slug headline content 1-column-text one-column-1 semantics Stealth Semantics In LinkML, <b>everything</b> has a URI behind the scenes. Developers can work directly with YAML/JSON/CSVs, and semantic models in JSON-LD and ShEx are autogenerated. <a href="https://w3id.org/linkml/EnumDefinition">LinkML enums</a> allow binding to ontologies with a simple enumeration model.<br></br><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQyQsRIBjSxhaDie5ASDAOTfJO9JqFjYmdoBHgCVVKMHzKo0AyL04lGNqWdgbCnyV8a-syk1U81tRXg/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="960" height="569" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe> template block media_alignment headline slug media content content-feature feature-1 Right <strong>Publish</strong> your schema on the web publish image alt_text /uploads/2021/03/30/screen-shot-2021-03-29-at-7-21-58-pm.png The LinkML framework automates publishing schema documentation using mkdocs, and assists in publishing schema artefacts using w3id.org template block headline content detail-content text-1 Steps to Build a Model <p>You can get started right away!</p><ol><li><p>Use <a href="https://github.com/linkml/linkml-project-cookiecutter" title="LinkML Project Cookiecutter">linkml-project-cookiecutter</a> in GitHub.</p></li><li><p>Edit your YAML file</p></li><li><p>Add example data</p></li><li><p>Use the Makefile to generate all downstream artefacts</p></li></ol> template block content simple-footer footer-1 LinkML ❤︎s your data