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Welcome to the befdata wiki!

BEFdata is a web application and research data base. It makes it easy to store and harmonize data originating from different research groups and stored in spreadsheets. A special emphasis is for working with the R statistical environment, for which we maintain an R package on CRAN.

Features of BEFdata

• upload and update data from [Excel(TM) 2003 worksheets](wiki/BEFdata workbook), or as .csv text file
• upload and update data from within the R statistical environment or as web service
• harmonize data across data sets, [validate against naming conventions](wiki/Approve invalid categories)
• export data in EML format
• access all data from within the R statistical environment; or as web service
• download data to your R workspace; or as web service
• request datasets for use in Paper proposals, store usage of datasets in paper proposals
• use Paper proposals to communicate your analysis ideas within and between projects
• store primary data in a relational database; PostgreSQL
• save previous [versions](Changing and Versioning) of your primary data
• notify those having downloaded or requested your data within BEFdata or via e-mail in case of [changes](Changing and Versioning) to the dataset

In this Wiki you find documentation for

• Users of BEFdata instances: User manual,
• Data managers, managing data on BEFdata instances and customizing BEFdata: Data manager manual
• Developers, contributing to BEFdata development: For developers