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Jupiter. History shows Galileo to be much more than an astronomical hero,
though. His clear and careful record keeping and publication style not
only let Galileo understand the Solar System, it continues to let _anyone_
understand *how* Galileo did it. Galileo’s
notes, _and_ the publication resulting from them, notes directly integrated his **data** (drawings of Jupiter and its
moons), key **metadata** (timing of each observation, weather, telescope
properties), and **text** (descriptions of methods, analysis, and
conclusions), conclusions). Critically, when Galileo included the information from those notes in _Siderius Nuncius_ \cite{galilei}, this integration of text, data and metadata was preserved, as shown in Figure
1, excerpted from a passage about Jupiter Galileo's book _Siderius Nuncius_ \cite{galilei}. 1. Galileo's work advanced the "Scientific Revolution," and his approach to observation and analysis contributed significantly to the shaping of today's modern "Scientific Method" \cite{galilei1618assayer,galilei1957discoveries}.
Today most research projects are considered complete when a journal article based on the analysis has been written and published. Trouble is, unlike Galileo's report in _Siderius Nuncius_, the amount of real data and data description in modern publications are almost never sufficient to repeat or even statistically verify a study being presented. Worse, researchers wishing to build upon and extend work presented in the literature often have trouble recovering data associated with an article after it has been published. More often than scientists would like to admit, they cannot even recover the data associated with their own published works.