2  October 2002
De Young/NVO-Codata
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Changing Patterns
•Exponential growth
–Data will be never centralized
•More responsibility on projects
–Becoming Publishers and Curators
–Larger fraction of budget spent on software
–Lot of development duplicated, wasted
•More standards are needed
–Easier data interchange, fewer tools
•More templates are needed
–Individuals develop less software