Purpose of the schema

[mslw]

On a high level, I think the main purpose of creating this schema is:

• formalize the description of terms used to describe crc datasets
• generate the documentation
• centralize the key-to-IRI mapping: documentation, discussion, formal specification (cuurently sfb docs provide user-facing description and tabby-utils repo contains slightly obscure IRI mapping, e.g. the tabby convention and some issues)

But on a practical level, what exactly should the schema describe, and for what it would be used in the catalog-generation workflow?

• datalad-tabby
  • goal: describe the output of load_tabby, i.e. what comes out of a tabby-spreadsheet after adding a context with datalad-tabby?
  • usage: validate spreadsheets
• tabby-utils
  • goal describe the (desired) output of further processing that is intended to go into the sfb catalog?
  • usage: validate catalog input

I think the two are not necessarily the same (there is some structure editing and enrichment from external lookups going on before passing the data to the catalog for a nice display).