Hi, Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but there is a draft JSON schema specification at http://json-schema.org/ which is "a JSON based format for defining the structure of JSON data".
Best regards, Jeroen On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kevin R. Coombes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We just had a manuscript that describes three applications of CouchDB in > bioinformatics accepted with minor revisions. (I think this will be the > first paper describing a CouchDB application in the area of bioinformatics.) > > One of the requested minor changes is for "schematics, data models, etc". > I'm sure that the reviewer is thinking about the kinds of schema diagrams > that can easily be supplied for a relational database. Other than a table > or a screenshot showing the reviewer what a typical document looks like in > these databases, does anyone know of equivalent tools or diagrams to > describe a document-oriented database? Are there any (formal) design or > document conventions that have evolved or are evolving for describing > databases built using Couch? > > Kevin > > In case anyone wants to take a look at the applications, here are the URLs: > > geneSmash > > http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/genesmash/_design/basic/index.html > drugBase > > http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/drugbase/_design/basic/index.html > HapMap-CN > http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/hapmap/_design/basic/index.html >
