Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Relating versus Replacing

“Centralization”. “Mapping”. These are overloaded concepts. They mean different things in different contexts.

Opening the World to Infer; Closing It to Validate

Scientific data is distributed over time. For a given entity of interest, have we already recorded all potentially relevant data on its properties, relationships, and representations?

Scientific Data Is Fundamentally Distributed

Scientific data is fundamentally distributed: physically, conceptually, and temporally. You can’t situate all the data you’ll ever need, once and for all, in one place.

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