We work a lot with file-based models and we prefer simple text based file structures such as markdown or json. These text-file-based models are simpler and easier for an author to understand, edit, and organise.
This empowerment of the author enables the not-technical author to steward their own data more easily. At teh saem time it makes it a simple task for a more technically minded author to use tools, or write simple scripts to inject the json-data into more powerful databases.
# Json Models For structured data we prefer json-based models, rather than databases (for the reasons outliend above). Livecode, Javascript and virtually all mainstream languages have native ways of pasing and prcessing json files - in Livecode we serialise internal arrays to json using: - json_ToArray - json_FromArray