Metatab stores metadata in a spreadsheet, alongside data, ensuring that the metadata is easy to create, easy to read, and cannot be separated from the data. Metapack builds data packages with Metatab metadata. Metapack Documentation Metatab Specifications Github Project Metatab is a way of writing and storing metadata in the same spreadsheet as a dataset. Because it uses a tool every user already has — a spreadsheet — it is much simpler than documenting metadata in XML or JSON, resulting in more public data
Metatab is a core part of Metapack, a data packaging format that uses Metatab formatted metadata files for building ZIP, Excel and Directory based data packages.
The Metatab/Metapack system includes: