Needlebase Data Publishing: From Private Exports to Public Browsing
Once your data has been acquired, merged, and polished, Needlebase offers you numerous ways to expose the clean data to its intended audience—whether a single analyst, a private community, or a public-facing website or mobile application.
Exposing your data begins with Needlebase's built-in data browsing, query, and visualization environment. Like all Needlebase features, no programming is required: a query-building wizard helps you render the data in attractive tables, groups, grids, lists, and maps. Every GUI action that browses Needlebase data automatically creates a corresponding command-line query, so whenever you have a good data view, you can save it, copy the query for use by an external program, or generate a corresponding web services URL that will run that query automatically.



Data Publishing Features
| Data navigation and querying |
- allows easy browsing of interconnected data
- renders data as attractive tables, groups, grids, lists, and Google maps
- provides a query-building wizard to quickly configure custom data views
- provides custom data queries via Thread, a compact and expressive new query language designed to mimic human data navigation
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Data Export and Publishing |
- allows clean snapshots of the data to be published and queried by end users or applications, while data-curating work proceeds in the working copy
- exports data to CSV or JSON at any time
- all data views yield corresponding web-services URLs suitable for programmatic use
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| Security |
- gates all access to Needlebase by password-protected, secure https protocols
- by default, keeps all data uploaded to Needlebase private to your community
- implements role-based authentication and authorization, allowing you to expose published data snapshots to just your community, restricted IP address ranges, or the general public
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