# NWB Background

## Components

NWB is

- nwb schema language
- core schema + extensions 
- hdmf + hdmf common
- pynwb

## NWB Schema Language

### Design

### Types

## Core Schema

### Special Cases

- `NWBFile` defines the storage layout
- `hdmf-common` defines the base data types, which effectively are all special cases

## PyNWB