Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Are You Just Creating Another Data Silo?
You have a data-intensive research problem. Custom software will help you solve it.
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.