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Re-added detail on updating archives to the paper
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Signed-off-by: David Turner <[email protected]>
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contribute to their analysis.

Once a set of relevant observations have been identified, for either a single mission or a set of missions, a
[Daxa]{.smallcaps} data archive can be declared. This will automatically download the selected data from
the various telescope archives, and proceeds to ingest and organise the data so that it can be managed (and if
necessary, updated) through the [Daxa]{.smallcaps} interface. We have also implemented user-friendly, multi-threaded,
[Daxa]{.smallcaps} data archive can be declared. When a user declares a [Daxa]{.smallcaps} archive, the selected data
are automatically downloaded from the various telescope datasets, and then ingested and organised so that they can
be managed through the [Daxa]{.smallcaps} interface. We have also implemented user-friendly, multi-threaded,
data preparation and cleaning routines for some telescopes (_XMM_ and _eROSITA_ in particular, though more will be
added); fine control of the parameters that configure these processes is retained, but default
behaviours can be used if the user is unfamiliar with the minutiae of X-ray data preparation. Another key benefit of
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running. Any [Daxa]{.smallcaps} archive can be loaded back in after the initial processing, once again providing access
to the stored logs, and processing information. At this point the archives can also be updated, either by searching
for new data from the existing missions, adding data from a different mission, or re-processing specific observations
to achieve more scientifically useful data. Each data archive is also capable of creating a file that
to achieve more scientifically useful data. Any such change will be recorded in the archive history, so that the data
archive can have a specific version that refers to its exact state at any given time; this version can be referred
to in published work using the data archive. Each data archive is also capable of creating a file that
other [Daxa]{.smallcaps} users can import, and which will recreate the data archive by downloading the same data, and
processing it in the same way; this renders making fully processed, and large, X-ray data files available with a piece
of research unnecessary. This feature in particular can be used to further one of the tenets of open-source
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