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 JZFS adapts principles of open-source software development and distribution to address the technical challenges of data management, data sharing, and digital provenance collection across the life cycle of digital objects.
 
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 Compared with code in software development, data tend not to be as precisely
 identified because data versioning is rarely or only coarsely practiced. Scientific computation