An interactive table editing tool will also be provided. An interactive filter editing tool will also be provided. A full set of applications will exist for creating, deleting, and editing event-data header objects. Thus, a new format can be used with existing applications by merely adding another kernel to the libraries and rebuilding the applications. Some reduced products, such as spectra and light curves, are also tabular.
Users construct filters by direct specification or from auxiliary data or reduced-data products.
Since event data sets usually consist of many objects of various types, we made an object management facility an integral part of the data model. We adopted a directory-like facility in which the user manipulates the objects by name. Applications will be developed modularly so their functionality is available through callable subroutines. We may put out beta versions of the software prior to the final release. We encourage comments, criticism, and suggestions by all interested parties.