Been quiet on @layers.pub the last couple months, but have some stuff coming soon I’m really excited about.

Layers now has a zulip chat at community.layers.pub! DM if you're interested in joining!

You could certainly define similar schemas for XML or use vanilla JSON schemas or whatever. From my perspective, one point in favor of ATProto is about the infrastructure it provides for discovery + sharing: defining lexicons (rather than another schema) supports hooking into that infrastructure.

Layers (v0.5.0) now has a pub.layers.changelog lexicon for targeted semantic versioning of all data and metadata components in the pub.layers namespace. docs.layers.pub/lexicons/cha... We've also documented plans for developing an AppView. docs.layers.pub/appview/ Discussion welcome.

Layers (v0.4.0) now has a full set of XRPC queries with domain-specific filter parameters for every record type, and a major simplification to the way segmentation works. Github: github.com/layers-pub/l... Docs: docs.layers.pub

Layers is a set of ATProto lexicons for representing and interlinking linguistic data across modalities. We're hoping to get feedback on a draft proposal for the lexicons. docs.layers.pub github.com/layers-pub/layers

GitHub - layers-pub/layers: Composable ATProto lexicons for linguistic annotation

Composable ATProto lexicons for linguistic annotation - layers-pub/layers

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