The ECL Constellation automatically coordinates and organizes scientific data coming to and from the lab into a vast network of linked data objects. Information is organized into Constellation objects by breaking into a set of Fields which each contain a value (e.g. The MolecularWeight Field of the Object representing Ethanol is 46.07 Gram/Mole). The collection of which Fields are available for a given object is defined by the Type of object it is. So for instance Constellation objects of Type Object[Data,Chromatography] have Fields storing their Absorbance data, Pressure Data, Gradient information, etc. whereas Constellation objects of Type Object[Sample] have a different set of fields storing the volume of the sample, the weight of the sample, the conditions under which the sample should be stored etc. In addition to storing values, fields in Constellation objects can also store links to other Constellation objects in their Fields. This structure allows you to easily explore lines of inquiry and answer any follow-up questions about your data, analysis, instrumentation, or any other aspect of your experiments by exploring the network of links. So if you're looking a given data object and you want to know the temperature in the room recorded from the sensor nearest to the instrument at the time the experiment that generated that data was run, you could surf from the data object via its Protocol field to protocol object and then look at the protocol object's EnvironmentalData Field to find a link to the temperature sensor readings from the sensor nearest to the instrument at the time at which the protocol was conducted in the lab.