Open Science folks understood this fact around 2018 IIRC, and there are a couple of nice standards for encapsulating research data such as RO-Crate [0]. Moreov

Open Science folks understood this fact around 2018 IIRC, and there are a couple of nice standards for encapsulating research data such as RO-Crate [0]. Moreover, the science folks are not a picky bunch and they tend to use what works well, whether it be CSV and XML. As long as there's tooling and documentation, everything is acceptable, which is something I like. [0]: https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/ https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/