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This ∞ Data Lib Story pulls together pages writen by Alexey Zaitsev, presenting his ideas for
a global library of data items used to capture experimental data used for scientific disclosures.
Concept
The concept, architecture, and implementation are introduced in this page, with details to
follow in subsequent pages
Building Blocks
A set of archetypical data structures that are intutive, but connected in flexible ways to
represent practically any configuration of data that might result from scientific experimentation.
Data Objects
A data object is a linear sequence of data items (building blocks) with unique names.
They can be serialized and stored remotely in a ledger-based system, similar to a block-chain.
Superstructures
Superstructures are nested sequences of data items that may be structured, e.g., tables, trees, ...,
or raw data blocks. They are used to bind together all of the data associated with a research project,
and then itself bound to an organizational structure, e.g., Utah.edu.
Research Context
A description of Data Nodes and the role they play in making research data secured, immutable, and linked
to a global context for retrieval anywhere, anytime.
Traceability
This story concludes with a discussion of data traceability and a synopsis of the principal
arguments offered in this story.