One of the coarchitects of openphacts here. A pointer for developers is dev.openphacts.org. All the source and data is open.
While I agree that standards are hard I think the major issue is sustaining these things. You need some set of people to code and curate even if it's small and you need good uptime/support to gain community trust.
I've been enjoying this as just a fun thing to do sitting on the couch in the evening. Sit back and learn a bit of swift. Mainly just getting info on syntax. It's surprisingly relaxing.
This is one thing I struggle with. I usually start in a notebook and then eventually want/need to port to a module environment. It would be nice if there were some guidelines or support for this sort of transition. Any pointers?