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Signed-off-by: David Turner <turne540@msu.edu>
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management features both allow the user to keep track of their dataset, but also to version control it. If more data
become available, or existing data need to be reprocessed, then the version of the dataset can be automatically
updated. Research publications can thus reference an exact version of a dataset, which can be reproduced without
offering the whole dataset for download, which is often impractical.
offering the whole dataset for download.

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# Features

[Daxa]{.smallcaps} contains two types of class, mission classes and the archive class. Mission classes directly
represent a telescope, or in some cases a particular use of a telescope (for instance there are separate classes for
pointed and survey observations taken by _ROSAT_, as the characteristics of the data are quite different), and exist
to provide a Python interface with the up-to-date telescope observation database. Such mission classes

Archive class

Data management

# Existing software packages

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