ObjTables was designed for uses cases where users need to quickly view, edit, validate, analyze, and share entire datasets.
- - Data integration and modeling: ObjTables
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- - Supplementary data of journal articles: ObjTables is an excellent medium for supplementary data for journal articles. ObjTables enables authors to publish their data in a format that can easily both be (a) viewed by any reader (with just a workbook viewer such as Excel) generally without needing to install or learn any software and (b) parsed by readers into a data structure for further analysis. The later is made easy by the ability to package schemas and datasets together into a single workbook.
+ - Data integration and modeling: ObjTables is ideal for data integration and modeling because ObjTables makes it easy to use (a) workbooks for building and editing datasets/models, (b) the ObjTables software to rigorously validate datasets/models and quickly correct errors, (c) programming languages to analyze datasets and simulate models, and (d) version control systems such as Git to revision datasets and models.
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+ - Domain-specific formats/languages for nascent domains: ObjTables makes it easy to quickly define a format/language for a domain, including the schema and software tools for interacting with datasets encoded in the schema. In particular, ObjTables is well-suited to building domain-specific formats/langauges for nascent academic fields because ObjTables schemas and datasets are easy to create and iteratively edit.
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+ - Supplementary data of academic journal articles: ObjTables is an excellent medium for supplementary data for journal articles. ObjTables enables authors to publish their data in a format that can easily be (a) viewed by any reader (with just a workbook viewer such as Excel) generally without needing to install or learn any software and (b) parsed by readers into a data structure for further analysis. The later is made easy by the ability to package schemas and datasets together into a single workbook.
- - Sharing data with collaborators and colleagues: For similar reasons, ObjTables is an excellent medium for sharing data with collaborators and colleagues. Because Excel is so common, in many cases, ObjTables datasets shared via email or with networks such as DropBox and Google Drive can be previewed in email clients and in web browsers without having to open any additional software.
+ - Sharing data with collaborators and colleagues: For similar reasons, ObjTables is an excellent medium for sharing data with collaborators and colleagues. Because Excel is so common, in many cases, ObjTables datasets shared via email or with networks such as DropBox and Google Drive can be previewed in email clients and web browsers without users having to open any additional software.