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5 Workshop Lessons
Pages 35-37

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... The successful collaboration between Alex Szalay and Jim Gray is a prime example. • t is impossible to build a complete software stack quickly.
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... Currently, S publication schemes typically send data sets to scientists who load these data into their favorite software system and then further reduce them to find actual data of interest. In effect, a central sys tem sends data to scientists who query them locally to discover items of interest.
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... of the data carefully, with an auto R mated system. This is necessary for the raw data, of course, but it is also crucial to precisely record the semantics of any derived data, thus carefully maintaining the provenance of those data sets.
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