You have a data-intensive research problem. Custom software will help you solve it.

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

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