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13	13	=== The openMINDS umbrella ===
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16		-openMINDS is the overall umbrella for a set of integrated metadata models for describing neuroscience research products in graph databases. The correct integration of these metadata models as well as the provision of a central access point is handled by an integration pipeline. All metadata models are developed on separate GitHub repositories, in order to facilitate extensions and maintenance of existing, as well as development and integration of new openMINDS metadata models and schemas. The integration pipeline ensures that the central openMINDS GitHub repository ingests all these GitHub repositories as [[git-submodules>>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule||rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]], integrates the respective metadata models and builds the openMINDS GitHub pages, as well as ZIP files containing the respective openMINDS schemas in the supported formats, such as the openMINDS syntax (cf. below), JSON-Schema, or HTML. In the following we will summarize the contents and requirements for the central openMINDS GitHub repository as well as all metadata model git-submodules. The openMINDS integration pipeline will be handled in a separate chapter (cf. below).
	16	+openMINDS is the overall umbrella for a set of integrated metadata models for describing neuroscience research products in graph databases. The correct integration of these metadata models as well as the provision of a central access point is handled by an integration pipeline. All metadata models are developed on separate GitHub repositories, in order to facilitate extensions and maintenance of existing, as well as development and integration of new openMINDS metadata models and schemas. The integration pipeline ensures that the central [[openMINDS GitHub repository>>https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS||rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]] ingests all these GitHub repositories as [[git-submodules>>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule||rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]], integrates the respective metadata models and builds the openMINDS GitHub pages, as well as ZIP files containing the respective openMINDS schemas in the supported formats, such as the openMINDS syntax (cf. below), JSON-Schema, or HTML. In the following we will summarize the contents and requirements for the central openMINDS GitHub repository as well as all metadata model git-submodules. The openMINDS integration pipeline will be handled in a separate chapter (cf. below).
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19		-Let us start with the [[central openMINDS GitHub repository>>https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS||rel=" noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]] which has a **main branch**, a **documentation branch**, and **version branches** (naming convention: vX; e.g., v1). Official releases (naming convention: vX.Y; e.g., v1.0) are tagged and provided as release packages.
	19	+Furthermore it stores the openMINDS vocabulary (**##vocab##**), providing general definitions and references for **types** and **properties** used in schemas across all openMINDS repositories (cf. below). And last but not least, it holds the schema representations for all supported metadata formats created by the openMINDS integration pipeline (cf. below).
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22		-The **main branch** hosts the general README, the LICENSE document, the CONTRIBUTING document, and the general openMINDS logo. In addition, it maintains the openMINDS vocabulary (vocab; cf. below) which provides general definitions and references for schema types and properties used across all openMINDS metadata models and their versions, as well as the bash script that builds the content of the documentation and version branches.
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25		-The **documentation** branch hosts the HTML files that build the [[openMINDS GitHub pages>>https://humanbrainproject.github.io/openMINDS/||rel=" noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]], as well as a ZIP file for each version branch and official release containing the respective openMINDS schemas in the currently supported formats, such as the openMINDS syntax (`.schema.tpl.json`; cf. below), JSON-Schema (`.schema.json`), or HTML (`.html`).
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28		-The **version** branches host the respective openMINDS schemas of a major version by ingesting the corresponding metadata models as git-submodules. Note that these version branches can have official release tags. If a version branch has an official release tag, only backwards compatible changes can be merged on this branch. This can include corrections of typos in instructions, introduction of additional properties to schemas, loosening constraints on expected value numbers or formats, granting additional relations between schemas, and adding new schemas (if they do not require relational changes in existing schemas). Except for typo corrections, these changes are typically tagged as sub-releases for the respective major version (e.g., v1.1). If a version branch does not have an official release tag, yet, also non-backwards compatible changes can be merged on this branch. This can include renaming of existing properties, increasing constraints on expected value numbers or formats, removing relations between schemas and adding new schemas, if they cause relational changes in existing schemas. In case all version branches have official release tags, a new non-backwards compatible change would lead to the creation of a new version branch (with a respectively increased major version number).
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31		-As mentioned already above, the setup of the central openMINDS GitHub repository is maintained by the openMINDS integration pipeline (cf. [openMINDS_generator](https:~/~/github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS_generator) GitHub repository). Note that the pipeline is configured in such a way, that each commit on one of the openMINDS submodules will trigger a new build of the central openMINDS repository ensuring that its content is always up-to-date.
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34	34	For this to work smoothly for the existing, but also for all new openMINDS metadata models, the corresponding openMINDS submodules (GitHub repositories) have to meet the following requirements:
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