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brew install --cask open-data-editor

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overview

Package summary

No-code application to explore, validate and publish data in a simple way

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Project history and usage

Open Data Editor, commonly abbreviated ODE, is an OKFN desktop application that gives non-programmers a graphical workflow for finding and correcting errors in tabular data, managing metadata, and exporting or publishing results.

Project history

The Open Knowledge Foundation developed Open Data Editor as a no-code desktop application for exploring, validating, editing, and publishing tabular data. The project is built around the Frictionless Framework and remains identified as beta in its official repository.

The documentation subsequently expanded beyond basic validation into FAIR-data guidance, responsible AI, metadata editing, publication workflows, technical documentation, and geographically diverse use cases.

Adoption history

ODE is distributed for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with AppImage and Debian packages available for Linux. Its documentation presents use cases in agriculture, climate, data journalism, government, finance, heritage, and libraries.

The project positions itself as privacy-conscious, free, and open source, lowering the barrier to Frictionless-style validation for users who do not work from code or command-line tools.

How it is used

Open a CSV, Excel file, folder, or supported online table; inspect automatically detected structural and type errors; edit affected cells and metadata; then export the corrected data or use a documented publication workflow.

An optional local AI component can assist with supported tasks. The official repository documents environment variables for overriding its model name, URL, and filename.

Why package nerds care

ODE packages the Frictionless Data approach into a desktop GUI. For data-tooling users, it is a bridge between spreadsheet workflows and reproducible validation, metadata, and publication practices.

Timeline

The official repository labels the application beta and documents cross-platform release artifacts.
2025: The current official documentation set identifies Open Knowledge Foundation as its publisher and consolidates user, technical, and contributor guidance.

Related projects

Frictionless Framework supplies the underlying data tooling and validation concepts.
Frictionless Data provides the broader standards and ecosystem context.
The official documentation compares ODE with Data Check, IATI Validator, CSV Lint, 360Giving Data Quality Checker, and Data Curator.

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	cask:open-data-editor
Version	1.8.0
Package manager	Homebrew Cask
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/open-data-editor
Homepage	https://okfn.org/en/projects/open-data-editor/
Repository	https://github.com/okfn/opendataeditor
Upstream docs	https://okfn.org/en/projects/open-data-editor/
Source archive	https://github.com/okfn/opendataeditor/releases/download/v1.8.0/distribution-files-macos.zip
SHA-256	e21dfc9b3983e49c367f6ba81b87615bae6071943cac5a8e4a07c8862440f013
Bottle	not recorded
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

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Source Database	Homebrew cask API
Tap	homebrew/cask
Full Token	open-data-editor
Names	Open Data Editor
Artifacts	App 1 Target 1 Zap 1
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no

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