Who it serves

Six kinds of team keep meaning somewhere. One model lets them keep it together — data and pipeline, standards and ontology, API and interface, content and semantics, research and domain, business systems and contracts.

The people who structure knowledge already exist in your organization, usually in teams that don’t attend each other’s meetings. A core model is where what each of them settled becomes readable by the others — and by every agent.

Six constituencies, one model

WhoWhat they bringConnectors that serve them
Data, warehouse and pipelineManifests, catalogs, contracts — the structure the pipeline already publishes.dbt · Snowflake · Google BigQuery · Databricks · Microsoft Fabric · Azure Synapse · AWS Glue · Airbyte · Apache Airflow · Confluent
Standards and ontologyThe vocabularies an industry agreed on, and the ontology the organization maintains.OWL · JSON-LD · ShEx · LinkML · Open Semantic Interchange · MACH ODM
API and interfaceThe shapes systems promise each other.JSON Schema · Protocol Buffers · Apache Avro
Content, taxonomy and semanticsThe vocabulary and structure the content team stewards — schema.org, SKOS, the taxonomy that took years to settle.JSON-LD · Neo4j · MACH ODM
Research and domainThe codebook that is the schema of the study.REDCap · cBioPortal
Business systems and contractsThe org whose schema can change in forty seconds from Setup, and the contract that says what the data promises.Salesforce · ODCS

Content and semantics people bring their vocabularies — a schema.org profile, a SKOS taxonomy, an ontology. CoreModels holds those as first-class models and maps them to the data and API schemas next door. It does not connect to a content platform; it connects to the structure the content platform was built on.

By role

Data engineers and developers

Authoritative schemas via API and MCP. Less guesswork, fewer integration errors, transformations driven by machine-readable definitions instead of rewritten code.

AI and ML engineers

A structured, validated schema network agents query at runtime. Fewer hallucinated field names, correct data shapes, and pipelines that adapt when the model changes.

Enterprise architects

A governed, versioned view of relationships and dependencies across the enterprise, with industry standards — FHIR, schema.org — mapped rather than re-implemented.

Subject-matter experts

Define and manage business definitions and rules directly, collaborate without waiting for developers, and keep a traceable record for compliance.

Content engineers and taxonomists

The people who already steward a vocabulary become the authority every agent reads from. The structure they maintain stops being documentation and becomes runtime infrastructure.

Industry specialists

Domain models from the Schematica Library — healthcare, legal, e-commerce, web standards — adapted to the organization and mapped to its own systems.

Where it is used

Healthcare data modeling

Streamline mapping between FHIR resources, device schemas and clinical data structures. Co-develop and refine models across teams, implement transformations quickly, and keep the record a regulator can follow — so the organization spends its effort on patients and research rather than plumbing.

Cross-domain integration

Connecting CRM and ERP, harmonizing product catalogs across regions, bridging legal document repositories with case management: typed mappings and semantic validation that make one schema graph do the work of dozens of point-to-point scripts.

AI-ready knowledge infrastructure

Agents perform better when they understand the shape and meaning of data. A machine-readable schema network lets them validate inputs, generate transformations and adapt to change — reading authoritative definitions at runtime instead of inferring them from names.

Rapid schema evolution

Business rules and data structures change constantly. Visual editors, collaboration and automated validation let teams evolve a model in hours rather than weeks, while governance rules prevent drift and breaking changes.