About

BASALT — Broad Analytical Schema for Samples and Laboratory Techniques

The BASALT schema is a LinkML-based data model for MONet/EMSL scientific data across biogeochemical, biological, and environmental domains. It defines canonical structures for samples, provenance, laboratory activities, analytical products, site metadata, and related entities used by BASALT consumers (Analysis API, database models, and tooling).

Schema version	0.1.0
Repository	https://github.com/EMSL-Computing/BASALT-Schema
Docs	https://EMSL-Computing.github.io/BASALT-Schema
Canonical URI	https://EMSL-Computing.github.io/BASALT-Schema
License	CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication

Schema version is declared in the root LinkML file (src/basalt_schema/schema/basalt_schema.yaml) and follows semantic versioning. See the repository README for the release process.

Contacts

• Yuri Corilo (corilo@pnnl.gov)
• Maia Kapur (maia.kapur@pnnl.gov)
• Bea Meluch (beata.meluch@pnnl.gov)
• Montana Smith (montana.smith@pnnl.gov)

Credits

This material is free to use, and attribution is always appreciated. Attribution may read as follows:

Authored by Conrad Mearns, Maia Kapur, Montana Smith, Beata Meluch, Aramy Truong, and Yuri E. Corilo at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Please cite the following in your work:

Prymolennna, A., Zalmanek, B., Kapur, M. S., Meluch, B. J., Smith, M., Mearns, C., Truong, A.& Corilo, Y. (2026). EMSL-Computing/BASALT-Schema: v0.1.0 — Initial public release of BASALT schema (Version v0.1.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21893602