Abstract
The paper offers a proposal of elementary data formatting for publication, as the various existing approaches may gravely impede any larger syntheses of published data on the level of regions and countries. The key lies in the structuring of the published data, in intentional presentation of data in tabular form whenever possible.
These tables ought to parse the data into the smallest possible units, securing a potential for machine-readable processing. The possibilities and limits of suchapproach are herein demonstrated on a particular and specific group of objects, Old Kingdom copper model tools, using the statistical software R.