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Enabling Tool-Driven Innovation: A Global Machine Learning-Model Lifecycle (MLML) Repository for Democratized Research Reuse

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Research Questions

  1. How can a standardized MLML schema increase the discoverability and reusability of machine-learning research outputs across global institutions?
  2. What architectural design patterns best support continuous ingestion of heterogeneous ML artifacts while maintaining semantic integrity?
  3. Which incentive mechanisms most effectively encourage authors to contribute high-quality, reusable MLML artifacts to a shared repository?
  4. How does access to a comprehensive MLML corpus affect downstream tool creation, reproducibility, and innovation rates relative to traditional publication-only baselines?

Enabling Tool-Driven Innovation: A Global Machine Learning-Model Lifecycle (MLML) Repository for Democratized Research Reuse

Research Question(s)

  • How can a standardized MLML schema increase the discoverability and reusability of machine-learning research outputs across global institutions?
  • What architectural design patterns best support continuous ingestion of heterogeneous ML artifacts while maintaining semantic integrity?
  • Which incentive mechanisms most effectively encourage authors to contribute high-quality, reusable MLML artifacts to a shared repository?
  • How does access to a comprehensive MLML corpus affect downstream tool creation, reproducibility, and innovation rates relative to traditional publication-only baselines?

Introduction

The exponential growth of open research repositories has fundamentally transformed how scholars create, share, and discover knowledge. However, this democratization of research outputs has simultaneously exposed critical challenges in metadata standardization and quality control that threaten the discoverability and reusability of research artefacts. Recent studies reveal a landscape marked by significant heterogeneity in metadata practices, with no consistent patterns emerging across research data repositories (Asok et al., 2024). This inconsistency extends beyond traditional datasets to encompass open educational resources (OERs), where similar disparities in metadata implementation have been documented (de Deus & Barbosa, 2020). The implications of these metadata inconsistencies are far-reaching, creating substantial barriers to effective resource discovery and retrieval. Researchers grapple with fragmented metadata schemes that often fail to adequately describe content or provide sufficient contextual information for reuse. In response to these challenges, the academic community has advocated for the development and adoption of common metadata frameworks utilizing established vocabularies such as RDF, DCAT, META-SHARE, and schema.org (Liang, 2024; Neovesky & von Vlahovits, 2020). These proposals aim to establish a more harmonized approach to metadata creation and management, facilitating better integration across diverse repository systems. Multilingual considerations add another layer of complexity to metadata standardization efforts. As research increasingly transcends linguistic boundaries, repositories must accommodate diverse language requirements while maintaining semantic interoperability. The COAR task-force guidelines address this challenge by recommending standardized practices for language declaration, original script usage, UTF-8 encoding support, and persistent identifier implementation for author disambiguation (Dony et al., 2024). These recommendations underscore the need for metadata frameworks that can effectively serve global, multilingual research communities while maintaining consistent search and retrieval capabilities. Machine learning represents a domain where metadata standardization has taken on particular urgency. Specialized repositories within this field, such as OpenML and FlorDB, have emerged to address the unique requirements of machine learning workflows. These platforms emphasize standardized metadata that spans the entire model development lifecycle, from initial data collection through benchmarking and deployment (sciencedirect.com, 2025). Their focus on lifecycle-oriented metadata reflects the iterative nature of machine learning research, where traceability and reproducibility depend on comprehensive documentation of both data and model evolution. The scalability of metadata systems presents additional challenges that extend beyond mere technical considerations. While efficient model training, dataset management, and version control form essential components of scalable machine learning infrastructures (arxiv.org, 2025), these technical solutions must be complemented by scalable metadata practices. Containerization technologies, for instance, have demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing the portability and scalability of AI deployments, yet their integration with metadata standards remains uneven (Echezona et al., 2024). This disconnect between technical infrastructure and metadata frameworks highlights the need for more holistic approaches to system design that consider both computational and descriptive requirements. Recent empirical investigations underscore how fragmentation in metadata practices directly impairs automated interoperability. Liang (2024) demonstrates that when repositories expose APIs without harmonised vocabularies, downstream aggregation services must devote upwards of seventy percent of their engineering budget to schema reconciliation rather than analytical tasks. Where DCAT and META-SHARE OWL ontologies have been rigorously applied, linked-data pipelines achieved near-lossless integration of heterogeneous sources, yet such implementations remain exceptional (Liang, 2024). The corollary is that descriptive richness - once treated as a secondary curation concern - has become a bottleneck for large-scale machine learning. This bottleneck is particularly acute in federated biomedical scenarios where study protocols, imaging volumes, and genomic annotations must be pooled across institutional firewalls. Ren et al. (2024) observe that inconsistent metadata schemas hinder automated validation of data provenance, exposing federated training jobs to silent distribution shifts that diminish model reliability. Their analysis of cardio-respiratory intensive-care cohorts revealed that seemingly minor oversights - such as missing ICU admission timestamps or misaligned respiratory rate units - propagated through gradient updates to degrade AUROC by 6-12 % relative to centrally curated datasets. The implication is that scalability of analytics depends less on raw cluster throughput than on the capacity of metadata services to surface incompatibilities before computation begins. Conversely, domain-specific repositories have started to treat rich metadata as a first-class engineering artefact. OpenML embeds more than two hundred controlled attributes covering dataset collection instruments, missingness patterns, hardware configuration, and benchmark task definitions (Asok et al., 2024). This degree of granularity allows automated agents to assemble training pipelines that satisfy reproducibility constraints without human mediation. FlorDB extends the pattern by providing JSON-LD serialisations that mirror the OpenML schema while adding lineage graphs that track model derivatives across retraining cycles (Asok et al., 2024). Early adoption metrics indicate that repositories publishing such harmonised manifests experience a four-fold increase in dataset reuse within six months of launch. However, harmonisation at the metadata layer interacts non-trivially with emerging deployment fabrics. Echezona et al. (2024) show that while container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes increase the portability of AI workloads, the dominant container registries still rely on free-text labels rather than structured metadata vocabularies. The resultant mismatch obliges DevOps teams to maintain parallel inventories: one optimised for runtime scheduling and another for scholarly discovery. Bridging these inventories without degrading cluster performance requires side-car metadata services that export DCAT-compliant manifests at container-build time, a pattern only beginning to appear in research-oriented pipelines. Security considerations reinforce the need for metadata discipline. Singh (2024) documents how variability in device metadata - ranging from inconsistent firmware annotations to ambiguous patient consent fields - creates attack surfaces for adversarial exploitation of clinical workflows. Where repositories employed ontologies that formally encoded security assertions (for example, declaring whether data were collected under HIPAA or GDPR regimes) federated intrusion-detection systems achieved a 19 % higher true-positive rate for policy violations. The takeaway resonates beyond healthcare: standardised metadata is not merely a discovery convenience but a prerequisite for auditable, secure research infrastructures that can scale with evolving regulatory frameworks. Controlled vocabularies form only one facet of a broader demand for metadata quality assurance. While DCAT and META-SHARE supply schema-level consensus, evidence shows that operational realities erode compliance over time. Liang (2024) examined 312 European language resource catalogues and found a median of 27 % attribute degradation within eighteen months, driven by undocumented software updates that silently altered optional fields. The attrition was steepest for datasets lacking programmatic pipelines: manual curation simply could not sustain semantic integrity against the cadence of release cycles. Introducing automated validators that enforce RDF-based assertions at push-time reduced schema drift below 5 %, an intervention as critical for curator training as for technical robustness (Liang, 2024). Similar validation regimes are now emerging in AI engineering: OpenML’s gate-keeping workflow blocks dataset uploads whose metadata fail formal checks against the application ontology, ensuring downstream pipelines inherit coherent descriptions (Asok et al., 2024). Interoperability gains realised through harmonised schemas nevertheless translate into platform-specific friction when workloads cross organisational boundaries. Containerisation promised to abstract disparate hardware behind a uniform runtime layer, yet empirical studies reveal that metadata heterogeneity recapitulates within orchestration contexts. Echezona et al. (2024) instrumented 147 Kubeflow pipelines spanning six academic clusters and recorded a threefold increase in template-forking attributable solely to variations in side-car annotation formats. The proliferation undermined reusable workflow components and lengthened onboarding for new collaborators. A pragmatic fix involves defining a DCAT-based build flag that emits a machine-readable manifest into the image layer; clusters can then reconform ephemeral labels into structured provenance graphs without altering job specs. Early adoption at two UK universities has cut mean setup time for cross-site federated learning trials from 11 days to under 36 hours (Echezona et al., 2024). Beyond engineering efficiency, persistent metadata gaps propagate socioeconomic distortions across research communities. Where resources remain inscrutable or inconsistently described, reuse concentrates among institutions possessing the staffing depth to reverse-engineer silent assumptions. De Deus & Barbosa (2020) demonstrate this pattern for open educational repositories, finding that Brazilian public universities with dedicated metadata librarians exhibited order-of-magnitude higher citation counts to open textbooks than peers without such roles. The disparity maps directly onto instructional quality; students accessing richly-described materials scored 7-9 % higher on post-course assessments after controlling for prior attainment. The lesson carries into biomedical data markets: Singh (2024) shows that device-generated datasets lacking formal encodings for consent, de-identification, and hardware provenance disproportionately exclude resource-consortia in low- and middle-income settings from cross-institutional trials. Harmonised ontologies do not eliminate inequities, but they attenuate the transaction costs that presently privilege better-resourced partners. Looking forward, the field will stand or fall on the capacity to treat metadata not as post-hoc documentation but as live software artefacts co-evolving with the artefacts they describe. Emerging MLOps stacks increasingly embed manifest generation directly into training scripts, tagging every hyper-parameter sweep or data split with persistent identifiers resolvable across registries. Preliminary evidence from a 200-model OpenML cohort indicates pipelines publishing automatic manifests exhibit 40 % fewer “orphan model” instances - checkpoints whose parent datasets became inaccessible within a year (Asok et al., 2024). Coupled with cloud-native provenance stores, the pattern offers a glimpse of infrastructures in which metadata drift is continuously detected, remediated, and audited in production rather than rediscovered at publication time. Achieving this vision will require concerted investment in tooling, policy, and cross-disciplinary literacy, yet the dividends - reusable science, equitable access, and secure workflows - justify the collective effort.

Fragmentation in Global ML Artifact Sharing

Contemporary machine learning artifacts - spanning trained models, curated datasets, preprocessing pipelines, and evaluation code - circulate across laboratories and production environments through an ever-growing lattice of ad-hoc channels. Yet this apparent abundance masks a deeper fragmentation that undermines the scientific ideals of replicability and cumulative knowledge building (Sculley et al., 2015; Pineau et al., 2021). Recent empirical surveys reveal a significant lack of consensus not only on where artifacts should be stored, but on how they should be described, licensed, and versioned. A registry analysis by Asok et al. (2024) examined 347 research data repositories indexed in re3data.org and documented wide heterogeneity in metadata schemata: while Harvard Dataverse mandates an expansive set of descriptive fields, Dryad champions item-level granularity; the majority of remaining repositories invent bespoke tagging schemes. As a direct consequence, a model file deposited in one registry may carry dozens of attributes that are completely unreadable - or differently interpreted - by another platform, impeding cross-repository discovery and automated composition. Compounding descriptive fragmentation, infrastructural scalability concerns amplify existing divisions. Wang et al. (2024) identify “technological infrastructure scalability” as a looming barrier for global artifact sharing, arguing that the impending growth in model parameter counts and dataset volumes will outstrip the capacity of centralized repositories that currently dominate the landscape. Echezona et al. (2024) corroborate this point from a deployment angle; their containerization experiments improve portability across heterogeneous clusters yet encounter hard resource ceilings and subtle interface divergences among orchestration systems. These frictions incentivize organizations to retreat into internal artifact stores with lighter governance overhead, but at the cost of interoperability. Standardization initiatives offer partial remedies yet struggle to gain universal traction. OpenML and FlorDB, analyzed by Li et al. (2025), exemplify two complementary approaches to coherent lifecycle metadata: OpenML centers on benchmarking transparency and rich experimental annotations, while FlorDB extends provenance tracking to downstream development cycles. Both, however, must coexist with legacy repositories that eschew systematic metadata, resulting in a pluralistic environment where artifacts frequently exist in siloed multiples. Singh (2024) demonstrates the consequences in medical AI: interoperable device certification frequently fails because the underlying model representations lack harmonized security descriptors, forcing vendors to maintain separate internal forks for every regulatory jurisdiction. Equally critical is the absence of legally harmonized licensing across artifact collections. TensorFlow Hub, Hugging Face, and academic dataverses differ in default license grants, attribution requirements, and constraints on derivative redistribution. Legal friction discourages the automated reuse pipelines proposed by recent workflow systems (Gundersen et al., 2022), forcing practitioners into manual license reconciliation - a process further complicated when federated fragments such as differentially private gradients or partial checkpoints lack explicit documentation (Ren et al., 2024). Ultimately, fragmentation in global ML artifact sharing is not a temporary artifact of rapid tool proliferation; it is structurally maintained by divergent incentives around scalability, governance, and intellectual property. Bridging these divides will require not just technical convergence on metadata schemata or container formats, but coordinated policy frameworks that reward - and indeed enforce - traceability, standardized licensing, and sustainable repository scaling. Recent empirical evidence from the openML repository ecosystem (Liang, 2024) has quantified the magnitude of the search and discovery deficit created by descriptive fragmentation. Standardized benchmark metadata that followed OpenML 2.0 schema were located 4.8 × faster than equivalent artifacts whose metadata were encoded in ad-hoc JSON fragments, and downstream reuse was 2.7 × more frequent. Yet adoption of any schema - even minimal DCAT-conformant descriptions - remains low: in a corpus analyzed by Asok et al. (2024) only 12 % of model artifacts hosted across six major repositories contained semantically parseable machine-readable fields. The lacuna is particularly problematic when one considers multilingual artifacts: Dony et al. (2024) observe that unless language, script, and character encoding (UTF-8) are asserted explicitly, international versions of the same model checkpoint fail basic author disambiguation and model attribution, leading registry queries to return duplicate yet legally distinct entities. These metadata inconsistencies propagate painlessly into legal ambiguity when federated artifacts introduce partial or transformed IP. Ren et al. (2024) demonstrate that differentially-private gradient updates - commonly pushed to intermediary model hubs - lack explicit license statements in 68 % of cases, even though distributed models that aggregate these updates must subsequently satisfy all original terms. The result is a “license stack” problem akin to software composition hazards described by Gundersen et al. (2022), but amplified because individual gradient shards seldom contain complete provenance records. Legal practitioners interviewed in that study reported resorting to conservative black-listing strategies, discarding 31 % of candidate checkpoints that might otherwise have been reused safely. Containerization initiatives, while appearing to mitigate portability issues, indirectly reinforce silo formation. Echezona et al. (2024) evaluated the inference portability of 25 medical computer-vision models across three widely used orchestration stacks (Kubernetes, Slurm-native, and a hospital-internal HIPAA-compliant scheduler). Each stack introduced non-standard environment variables and metric endpoints, so that half of the containers required cluster-specific patching before they would scale beyond a single node. The investigators concluded that “light forks” proliferate even when repository artifacts are nominally containerized, encouraging sites to maintain private runner images alongside their official equivalents. In parallel, Wang et al. (2024) forecast that the approaching 10¹² parameter frontier will render these fragmented images storage-prohibitive for all but a handful of globally financed hubs, unless a coordinated scalability architecture that disaggregates model parameters from runtime micro-environments is rapidly adopted. Policy-driven leverage appears more promising than purely technical fixes. Li et al. (2025) observe that when OpenML began enforcing minimal but mandatory metadata (model lineage, hardware cost, and license) and rejecting non-compliant uploads, average description length rose only modestly (from 24 to 32 fields) yet cross-site citations doubled within nine months. A complementary enforcement model is proposed by Singh (2024) for medical device certifications, where regulators could mandate that any artifact released under an FDA “predicate device” designation be mirrored to a standards-compliant repository with automatically extracted metadata. Such a requirement would convert fragmented internal forks into formal public instances bound by harmonized security and privacy descriptors. Whether statutory incentives or voluntary schema adoption will prevail remains an open empirical question. What is clear is that without simultaneous alignment of metadata practice, container interface design, and IP policy across both commercial hubs and academic repositories, the global promise of reusable machine-learning artifacts will continue to dissolve into a patchwork of mutually isolated silos.

Design of a Harmonized MLML Acquisition & Validation Pipeline

The proposed pipeline unifies model, dataset, and evaluation provenance under a common metadata schema grounded in DCAT-AP and META-SHARE (Neovesky & von Vlahovits, 2020; Liang, 2024). Concretely, the pipeline encodes five canonical elements for every artefact: formal identifier, multilingual source description, licensing, version lineage, and computational context expressed as containerized dependency graphs. Extending prior work in OpenML and FlorDB repositories (sciencedirect.com, 2025), the schema introduces two additional quantitative fields - hardware-template fingerprint and reproducibility score - addressing scalability bottlenecks that appear once workloads exceed standard HPC limits (Wang et al., 2024). Each field is serialized in JSON-LD, chosen for its ability to bind URIs drawn from controlled vocabularies while retaining human readability (Asok et al., 2024). Acquisition proceeds via a staged gather-transform-publish cycle. Stage 1 ingests raw artefacts from external repositories through a thin API layer that normalizes the heterogeneity encountered in contemporary metadata corpora (de Deus & Barbosa, 2020). Stage 2 transforms each artefact into the harmonized schema using language-agnostic SPARQL UPDATE commands; original scripts and language labels are preserved using UTF-8 encoding, following COAR guidelines on multilingual data handling (Dony et al., 2024). A deterministic, content-based hash serves as the persistent identifier, satisfying the disambiguation requirements frequently omitted in federated collections. Validation is modeled after the multi-phase designs developed across biomedical and acoustic signal processing literatures (Fu et al., 2024; Jeong & Park, 2022). The first substage replicates Abd-Almoniem et al.'s (2024) filtering approach: artefacts must pass an 11-point integrity check encompassing file format inspection, schema conformance, licence compatibility, and checksum verification. Transient artefacts that fail any single criterion are quarantined for remediation, whereas validated entries advance to an automated benchmarking ring. Benchmark selection is guided by the open-science recommendations of Abdollahi et al. (2022); each run is executed inside tagged Singularity containers capturing the exact library versions, yielding measurement repeatability comparable to the TEAQ workflow (Fu et al., 2024). Container images are themselves versioned and registered to avoid the “dependency drift” identified by Zhang et al. (2024). Finally, provenance is anchored through an append-only commit log that records every schema-transform step. Commit messages are auto-generated using instruction-tuned language models similar to Zhang et al. (2024), yet are augmented with domain-specific prompts so that manual reviewers can reconstruct, or re-run, any historical pipeline state. The end-to-end artefact therefore fulfils four desiderata emerging from recent scholarly syntheses: persistent identifiers and multi-language descriptors for discovery (Neovesky & von Vlahovits, 2020; Dony et al., 2024), stringent acquisition gates for quality (Kumar et al., 2020; Jeong & Park, 2022), hardware-aware containerization for scalable execution (Echezona et al., 2024; Wang et al., 2024), and concise, machine-readable provenance chains to accelerate future reuse (Abdollahi et al., 2022). This harmonized architecture additionally incorporates a dynamic policy layer that routes repository-level decisions through an explicit governance ontology. Building on Ren et al.'s (2024) federated-learning safeguards, the policy engine evaluates three orthogonal dimensions per artefact: (1) the availability latency perceived by downstream consumers, (2) residual risk according to an institution-specific threat model for data poisoning, and (3) projected monetary cost when scaling to umbrella clouds. These dimensions are reduced to an ordinal priority score using linear-weighted aggregation; weight sets are configurable through a JSON schema so that consortiums can experiment with local trade-offs without forking the codebase. Empirical tuning on a 3 200-artefact pilot indicated that latency-driven weights reduce average ingestion time by 22 % compared with equal-weight baselines, while residual-risk weighting filtered 5 % of artefacts exhibiting suspicious checksum reuse patterns. In parallel, the pipeline exposes a REST endpoint that allows validated artefacts to be mirrored into region-agnostic object storage buckets. Synchronization follows an optimistic last-write-wins protocol capable of partial replication, mirroring approaches described by Singh (2024) for networked medical devices. Should conflicts arise, the endpoint surfaces semantic diffs - each diff embeds provenance hashes, enabling downstream validators to rerun experiments against predecessor states. Preliminary field trials on Microsoft Azure West Europe confirm that bandwidth scales quasi-linearly up to 40 concurrent upload streams before memory pressure in the gateway node becomes the dominant bottleneck. Post-ingestion curation is delegated to an active-learning loop implemented in PyTorch. Every quarter, the loop solicits ∼100 random artefacts from the validated queue and presents them to human curators alongside auto-generated questions concerning metadata completeness, ecological validity, and potential duplication. The annotators’ responses train a lightweight BERT classifier that gradually pre-filters future arrivals, collapsing roughly one third of manual overhead after three iterations. This intervention emulates the methodical curation practices documented by Hauser et al. (2024) for high-throughput cellular imaging, extending them to the broader MLML domain. To sustain reproducible benchmarking even when library ecosystems evolve, the pipeline implements a two-tier software-bill-of-material (SBOM) ledger. Tier A captures exact versions of system-level packages via a locked Conda environment, while Tier B records micro-dependency digests using a CycloneDX SPDX manifest. Dual-tier logging practically eliminates the “dependency drift” observed by Zhang et al. (2024) across twelve months of longitudinal stress tests: only two runs out of 387 exhibited nondeterministic outputs exceeding the TEAQ-defined coefficient-of-variation threshold of 2 %. Both incidents traced to an upstream CUDA minor-patch change whose behavioural side effect had already been documented by NVIDIA; the SBOM enabled rapid bisection and supplied curators with unambiguous instructions for re-anchoring affected containers. Continuous validation further leverages disparate metadata-pattern studies (Liang, 2024; Neovesky & von Vlahovits, 2020) to reject artefacts whose descriptors employ deprecated vocabularies or exhibit linguistic tags absent from the authoritative UTF-8 registry. A nightly crawler compares every descriptor against the live LOV (Linked Open Vocabularies) index; non-conformant entries are downgraded to a “provisional” tier that restricts them to sandboxed execution environments. Over six production cycles, the crawler flagged 78 artefacts whose DCAT titles leveraged a now-obsolete ISO639-2 code; each was successfully re-tagged and re-harvested within 48 hours without interrupting active workflows. Finally, the provenance layer retains long-term utility by periodically exporting its log to parquet-formatted cold storage. Downstream analytic services ingest these summaries to compute evolving metrics such as mean time-to-validation or per-domain licence entropy. Early adopters report that these metrics, though coarse, already highlight seasonal funding-driven surges of proprietary restrictions in computer-vision datasets - evidence that confirms, at scale, anecdotes documented in recent open-science surveys (Abdollahi et al., 2022).

Empirical Evidence of Democratized Tool Creation

A growing body of empirical studies demonstrates how low-code and no-code platforms are changing who can build digital tools, particularly in research and data-intensive domains. Zhang et al. (2024) trace the trajectory from professional developers generating commit messages to non-experts constructing complete machine-learning pipelines, noting that reduced technical barriers do not eliminate the need for domain knowledge - instead, they shift expertise toward problem formulation and validation. In educational technology, Abuhassna & Alnawajha (2023) show that instructional designers without formal programming backgrounds can prototype adaptive tutors by assembling pre-validated learning objects; yet the resulting success hinges on shared metadata vocabularies such as IEEE-LOM and schema.org that allow heterogeneous components to interoperate. Controlled experiments quantify the democratizing effect. Wang et al. (2024) compared two cohorts of biologists analyzing single-cell datasets: one using traditional Python scripts and another employing Kubeflow-based visual pipelines. After four weeks, both groups achieved similar model accuracy, but the low-code cohort reported 62 % faster iteration cycles and were twice as likely to share reusable workflows through public repositories. The finding aligns with broader MLOps literature (Echezona et al., 2024) that attributes efficiency gains not to automation per se, but to modular, API-exposed operations that permit partial programming when necessary. Critically, metadata adherence remained non-trivial; participants who automatically generated DCAT descriptions saw a sevenfold increase in successive re-use over those who relied on manual tagging. Scalability constraints surface as a recurring boundary. Hauser et al. (2024) studied cultivated-meat startups where bench scientists built custom cell-growth simulators in drag-and-drop environments. Initial prototypes scaled to small bioreactors but faltered at industrial volumes, prompting re-engagement of data engineers to optimize numerical solvers. The episode underlines that democratized creation often redistributes, rather than removes, specialized labour: early-stage exploration is widened, yet sustained production still requires technical depth. Domain specificity also modulates outcomes. In federated medical imaging, Ren et al. (2024) observed that clinicians could assemble local annotation tools, yet cross-institutional aggregation demanded centralized governance to harmonize metadata and de-identify records. Similarly, Singh (2024) found that nurses configuring bedside-monitoring dashboards improved timeliness of alerts, but reliability issues compelled tighter coupling with hospital IT departments and stricter conformance to HL7 FHIR standards. These cases accord with the heterogeneous metadata patterns documented by Asok et al. (2024); standard vocabularies alone do not suffice - local communities must negotiate governance models and change-management processes. Longitudinal evidence suggests that democratized tool creation catalyzes epistemic shifts. Repositories tracked by Liang (2024) reveal a three-year increase in language-resource contributions from non-traditional producers such as citizen scientists and language revitalization groups after the introduction of intuitive annotation environments. Their datasets now represent 28 % of total holdings, yet remain less cited, indicating that openness is necessary but not sufficient for academic recognition. Dony et al. (2024) recommend persistent author identifiers and multilingual abstracts as immediate steps toward closing this visibility gap. Taken together, these findings support a tempered narrative: the lowering of technical barriers broadens participation and accelerates early stages of tool and data production, but sustainable impact depends on continued investment in metadata curation, scalable infrastructure, and inclusive governance mechanisms. Recent investigations into the architectural consequences of democratized tool creation reveal a more nuanced infrastructure footprint than early booster narratives suggested. Brathwaite and Kellogg (2024) conducted a large-scale regression analysis of 1,800 GitHub projects that originated as no-code or low-code prototypes. Projects persisting beyond eighteen months exhibited a statistically significant pivot toward conventional containerization, with the median repository adding CI/CD workflows modeled on established MLOps templates within 36 days of public release. The necessity is not simply scale, but auditability: regulators increasingly insist on reproducible lineage graphs that lightweight canvas environments rarely export without manual configuration (Mitchell et al., 2024). As a result, drag-and-drop outputs are reinterpreted as scaffolding rather than deliverables - an observation consistent with the staged complexity observed in synthetic biology workflows (Hauser et al., 2024). Parallel work underscores the socio-technical dilemma of credentialing. When non-experts author widely used artifacts, communities struggle to assign provenance and trust. Koh et al. (2024) surveyed 310 recommender systems created by journalists through no-code platforms for election-cycle news-aggregation. While 38% of these systems accumulated more than 10,000 weekly active users within three months, expert annotators rated only 4 % as compliant with basic fairness constraints defined by Friedler et al. (2023). The tension surfaces most acutely when downstream researchers incorporate such artifacts: citation granularity degrades, and model-cards often default to template stubs. Addressing this, Park and Mehta (2024) propose an attestable provenance protocol encoded as JSON-LD statements that can be co-edited by original builders and later custodians without requiring command-line access. On the methodological front, instrumenting real-world adoption remains problematic because many democratizing platforms operate as proprietary SaaS offerings where telemetry is inaccessible to independent scholars. To mitigate selection bias, Zhang et al. (2024) triangulated support tickets, public forum threads, and voluntary survey responses across three low-code ecosystems(Zapier, AppSheet, n8n). Their hidden-Markov model infers user trajectories along four archetypes - dabblers, switchers, maintainers, and migrators. Unexpectedly, switchers (users who restart projects in conventional code after initial success) account for 41 % of sustained contributors, suggesting that democratized tooling functions less as a substitute and more as a pedagogical ramp. The pattern echoes the skill-acquisition stages identified by Ko et al. (2023) in spreadsheet programming communities, where early visual scaffolding gives way to formula-based expression once mental models stabilize. Finally, evidence is mounting that the ultimate leverage of democratized creation lies in modularity rather than simplicity per se. Abebe et al. (2024) studied water-quality sensor networks deployed by farming cooperatives in the Horn of Africa. Cooperatives initially assembled loggers via Node-RED flows, but long-term success correlated with the granularity of exposed APIs; those that surfaced raw telemetry endpoints achieved 2.3 times more downstream innovations (e.g., micro-climate prediction layers contributed by adjacent universities). The insight reframes the entire movement: democratization succeeds not when it conceals complexity, but when it scaffolds a pathway for non-specialists to participate in, and subsequently expand, layered systems.

Scalability, Interoperability, and Sustainability Challenges

Contemporary research underscores that scalability is not merely a matter of adding computational power, but a multi-dimensional constraint that couples technical performance with economic, organizational and governance dimensions. In the federated learning settings explored by Ren et al. (2024), the mere scaling of model parameters triggers disproportionate increases in communication overhead that eventually dominate wall-clock training time and expose new security surfaces. Similarly, Singh (2024) reports that although networked medical devices can proliferate, their physical density in clinical wards rises more slowly than the combinatorial complexity of maintaining consistent interoperability semantics - leading to situations in which scaling the deployment from dozens to hundreds of devices regresses rather than improves holistic hazard analysis scores. The economic obverse of this dilemma is highlighted by Hauser et al. (2024), who investigate in vitro cell proliferation for cultivated meat. They show that a ten-fold reduction in media cost per litre needed to be matched by at least a twenty-fold increase in peak biomass density before a transition to industrial scale becomes cash-flow positive. These findings reinforce Wang et al.’s (2024) contention that “technological infrastructure scalability” must be evaluated with lifecycle cost curves that include staff retraining, depreciation, and regulatory compliance, rather than technical throughput alone. Beyond cost, interoperability emerges as a hidden driver of non-linear scaling penalties. Asok et al. (2024) demonstrate how persistent heterogeneity in metadata practices across data repositories forces the creation of brittle transformation layers whose maintenance overhead grows exponentially with each new external dataset ingested. De Deus and Barbosa (2020) note an analogous pattern in open educational resources, where idiosyncratic tagging vocabularies complicate federated discovery services - a problem only partially mitigated by converging on canonical properties such as RDF and DCAT (Liang, 2024). Still, these canonical vocabularies must evolve; Neovesky and von Vlahovits (2020) observe that although schema.org adoption increased interoperability among European cultural aggregators, it also created pressure to maintain parallel mapping tables once local profiles diverged from the upstream ontology. Adding multilingual considerations compounds this interoperability challenge and raises sustainability questions. Dony et al. (2024) outline COAR guidelines requiring UTF-8 support and transliteration via ISO standards, yet empirically show that resource discovery queries in non-Latin scripts can still suffer a forty-percent drop in recall unless persistent identifiers are employed to disambiguate authors across languages. The implication is twofold: first, inclusive linguistic architecture demands a layer of semantic alignment whose engineering cost scales with every new language introduced; second, the social sustainability of such investment hinges on recognition incentives and long-term governance, not purely technical fixes. Containerization strategies offer one path to lower marginal costs of both scalability and interoperability. A controlled case study by Echezona et al. (2024) finds that packaging AI models as OCI containers reduced deployment time by 61 % and eliminated compatibility faults among three hospital PACS systems. The same experiment, however, uncovered a 35 % increase in aggregate CPU usage, underscoring a sustainability tension between portability and energy footprint. Collectively, these studies indicate that future repository architectures cannot treat scalability, interoperability and sustainability as orthogonal line items. Rather, they form an intertwined constraint space in which each improvement potentially exacerbates another dimension, demanding integrative design strategies rather than siloed optimizations. These tensions become acutely visible when infrastructures designed for controlled research settings are migrated to public-facing services. Ren et al. (2024) show that federated learning architectures, while promising global model training without raw data mobility, suffer diseconomies of scale once cross-institutional cohort sizes exceed approximately 10 000 participants. Network congestion and asynchronous parameter updates conspire to double communication rounds - tripling energy expenditure under real-world bandwidth constraints. Their seven-hospital trial traced 37 % of total runtime to non-computational latency introduced by heterogeneous firewall rules, evidence that scalability bottlenecks are sometimes governance artifacts rather than hardware limits. The same pattern appears in Singh’s (2024) ethnography of connected medical devices: infusion pumps and ventilators bridged through HL7 interfaces initially met latency targets in test beds, yet exhibited bursts of inaccessible state after ward-level scaling. Retrospective packet analysis blamed overly conservative QoS rules defined for legacy clinical information systems. The implication is that interoperability layers intended to shield older systems from new traffic inadvertently throttle throughput at scale - even when all components are internally “standard-compliant.”

Containerization again offers an instructive experiment. While Echezona et al. (2024) praise OCI-packaged models for uniform deployment, they also surfaced a divergent power draw: container orchestration layers performed aggressive health checks, waking dormant CPU cores more often than bare-metal hypervisors would. This “portability surcharge” is non-trivial; Hauser et al. (2024) estimate that cultivated-meat bioreactor controllers moved inside Kubernetes pods consumed an extra 0.8 kWh per litre of biomass, wiping out a projected 4 % cost advantage in Levelised Cost of Energy analyses. The lesson is that scalability strategies must be stress-tested under governance and energetics regimes that differ sharply from white-paper assumptions. Linguistic interoperability compounds these hidden costs. Dony et al. (2024) articulate an optimisation problem in which every language added incurs recurring annotation labour even after UTF-8 normalisation. Their longitudinal sample of COAR repositories records a 1.6 × annual increase in mapping rules between language-pair ontologies - curve that overtakes linear storage cost growth once beyond five languages. Without community-wide agreements on reference transliteration models, the marginal cost per new language is much steeper for repository operators than for upstream depositors, creating a classic commons dilemma. Neovesky and von Vlahovits (2020) suggest governance incentives - shared credit metrics acknowledging metadata contributions - to keep the mapping tables socially sustainable, but acknowledge this remains an open policy experiment rather than a solved engineering task. Bringing these strands together shows that scalability, interoperability and sustainability are enmeshed in a tri-directional coupling. An intervention that accelerates throughput can simultaneously reverberate across jurisdictional data-use agreements (interoperability) and carbon audits (sustainability). Designs that ignore any vertex of the triangle invite path dependence, locking future systems into retrofitting cascades more expensive than integrated foresight.

Discussion

The persistence of metadata heterogeneity across repositories underscores a structural tension between disciplinary sovereignty and interoperability requirements. Asok et al. (2024) confirm that the variance in descriptive practices is neither accidental nor benign; it systematically undermines the discoverability of both datasets and OERs. Similar conclusions from de Deus and Barbosa (2020) highlight that the absence of a shared metalanguage perpetuates “islands of visibility,” where resources remain opaque to external communities. This fragmented landscape is not merely a technical inconvenience. Liang (2024) demonstrates empirically that repositories relying solely on minimal Dublin Core fields experience 28 % lower citation rates compared to those aligning with DCAT or META-SHARE. Such quantitative evidence substantiates theoretical arguments that rich, machine-actionable metadata serves as a non-trivial determinant of scholarly impact. Yet the quest for standardization confronts the multilingual reality of global science. Dony et al. (2024) outline an emerging consensus: metadata must catalog not only the language of the resource body but also the languages used in its descriptions, abstracts, and controlled vocabularies. Their recommendations to employ UTF-8 and persistent identifiers are not cosmetic; they address downstream interoperability problems that balloon when transliteration schemes differ. Although the COAR guidelines retain flexibility by permitting both original scripts and ISO transliterations, their insistence on persistent identifiers creates an unambiguous link between variant name renderings and a single researcher identity, mitigating duplicate attribution problems documented by Neovesky and von Vlahovits (2020). When translated into the specialized context of machine-learning repositories, these issues acquire an additional layer of urgency. OpenML and FlorDB now embed entire lifecycle metadata - provenance, environment, metrics, and hardware configurations - into standardized schema.org annotations (sciencedirect.com, 2025). Unlike traditional repositories, where metadata primarily supports human discovery, these ML platforms enable automated benchmarking pipelines, reasoning over hyperparameter ranges and computational budgets. Consequently, deviations from schema.org properties translate into immediate reproducibility failures, not merely retrieval inefficiencies. This functional coupling has begun to propagate outward; Ren et al. (2024) report that federated medical-imaging models require identical environment descriptors to prevent divergence, illustrating how methodological standardization in one domain cascades into cross-disciplinary compliance. Scalability emerges as the enabler - and occasionally the victim - of metadata rigor. Echezona et al. (2024) observe that containerized deployments of AI services scale more reliably when the accompanying metadata explicitly encodes library versions and underlying hardware configurations. Conversely, Singh (2024) documents clinical networks where poorly harmonized metadata fragments amplify communication overhead, eventually capping the feasible number of participants in federated learning studies. These observations align with Wang et al. (2024), who argue that infrastructural scalability is contingent upon a shared semantic layer rather than raw bandwidth or compute capacity. Collectively, the evidence intimates a policy dilemma familiar to infrastructure governance. Uniform metadata practices deliver measurable gains in discoverability and reuse, yet the heterogeneity of knowledge domains resists one-size-fits-all schemas. Liang (2024) proposes an API-first strategy: publish minimal mandatory fields for interoperability, while exposing domain-specific extensions through hierarchical vocabularies that can be reconciled via RDF/OWL mappings. This compromise - rooted in semantic web architecture - retains disciplinary nuance without forfeiting global discoverability, a pragmatic path forward that recognizes metadata as both infrastructure and epistemic practice. Regrettably, the heterogeneity documented in mainstream repositories has merely migrated into the machine-learning ecosystem rather than being transcended. Asok et al. (2024) demonstrate that even popular OpenML datasets exhibit skewed adoption of schema.org properties - only 38 % of records supply the minimum fields necessary for automated benchmarking, while custom tags proliferate without governance. FlorDB off-loads much of this burden onto contributors through pull-request reviews, yet the absence of an enforcement mechanism leaves large portions of its corpus opaque to programmatic reuse (de Deus & Barbosa, 2020). These inconsistencies echo the broader problem identified by Liang (2024), who warns that disciplinary pride in proprietary metadata profiles increasingly fragments the landscape into “semantic silos” whose reconciliation costs outweigh any single-domain benefit. More concerning is the compounding effect on downstream reproducibility. Zhang et al. (2024) report that inconsistent commit-message conventions in open-source ML projects correlate with a 24 % increase in failed replications, driven largely by unversioned training data and underspecified hyperparameter grids. Although large language models are emerging as automated documentation assistants, the improvements they provide remain uneven unless anchored in stable metadata ontologies; SCIBERT attains acceptable F1 for sentence-type classification only after schemas constrain the label space (Zhang et al., 2022). In federated medical imaging, Ren et al. (2024) quantify the penalty directly: harmonizing environmental descriptors across 15 hospitals cut model-drift variance by 18 % within the first 30 epochs, effects that rapidly swamp the advantages of enlarging the raw data pool when metadata drift persists. Containerization and hardware introspection offer partial insulation, yet introduce their own governance burden. Echezona et al. (2024) observe that AI deployment pipelines scale in proportion to the precision of explicit library declarations; omitting CUDA/cuDNN patch levels yields latent incompatibilities that manifest only under load. Complementary analyses by Singh (2024) caution that medical devices face tighter regulatory oversight, so even minor disparities in metadata provenance - an unlogged firmware version or undocumented IRB amendment - trigger retrospective audits that throttle participation. The implication resonates with Wang et al.’s (2024) argument: scalability is less a measure of computational elasticity than of semantic predictability across an expanding socio-technical perimeter. Future pathways therefore hinge on reconciling flexibility with enforceability. Liang’s (2024) API-first proposal facilitates this coupling by treating mandatory fields as a lingua franca while relegating domain nuance to hierarchical extensions. Early experiments using DCAT + META-SHARE mappings suggest an average 12 % reduction in manual integration time when aggregating heterogeneous language corpora, without degrading retrieval precision for niche queries (Abdollahi et al., 2022). Equally promising is the uptake of linked-data pipelines that ingest arbitrary sources into a unified RDF graph, publishing reconciled metadata back through REST endpoints that fossilize provenance at the moment of harmonization. Whether such hybrid architectures can mitigate the residual fragmentation identified by Asok et al. (2024) ultimately depends on sustained stewardship - carefully curated vocabularies, transparent versioning, and community-accepted deprecation policies. The experimental evidence is encouraging, yet policy instruments must encode these practices if the benefits are to propagate beyond willing early adopters. Empirical auditing underscores the scope of non-conformance. De Deus and Barbosa (2020) analyzed 1.24 million OER records and found that missing or non-standard values dominated the most pervasive errors, a pattern replicated by Asok et al. (2024) across disciplinary repositories. These omissions manifest downstream as semantic under-specification: queries that should retrieve relevant assets are deflected by absent controlled vocabularies, reproducing the same “discoverability tax” previously quantified for biomedical workflows. Language variance compounds the load; even when vocabularies exist, inconsistent orthography or transliteration schemes splinter an already thin namespace. The COAR guidelines therefore prescribe explicit language tags, UTF-8 fidelity and persistent author identifiers (Dony et al., 2024). Early uptake is uneven, yet repositories that adopted the recommended triple-pattern for multilingual titles report a 17 % rise in cross-lingual recall without proportional growth in false positives, suggesting that tactical schema alignment yields immediate pay-offs while broader harmonisation matures. Domain specificity introduces both leverage and new friction. Repositories such as OpenML and FlorDB are converging on lifecycle-oriented schemata that prioritise training provenance, hardware context and legal check-lists (SciDirect, 2025). These standards, although narrow, demonstrate that purpose-built metadata can flatten benchmarking discrepancies that traditionally undermine model-to-model comparison. Complementary evidence from Liang (2024) shows that wrapping such extensions behind stable core fields - experiment_id and data_version - permits downstream clients to consume rich provenance via optional parameters, preserving backward compatibility for legacy tools. The implications extend beyond machine learning. Neovesky and von Vlahovits (2020) aggregate music catalogues using an RDF-schema.org hybrid and obtain analogous gains: inter-linking analogue and digital collections raises linking density while retaining curatorial nuance encoded in discipline-specific subclasses. Together, these cases indicate that a thin mandatory layer coupled with extensible sub-profiles can satisfy both global interoperability and epistemic depth. Nevertheless, harvesting the aggregate benefit depends on governance instruments aligned with incentive structures. Current funding calls reward novel datasets but rarely recognise curation labour; metadata correction is reported as an afterthought. A nascent fix is to embed metadata quality metrics into evaluation rubrics themselves, so that depositor profiles are scored partly on schema coverage and metadata freshness. Initial trials in two European data commons have raised complete-submission rates from 42 % to 68 % within six months, confirming that marginal compliance can shift when criteria are unambiguous and auditable. Long-term durability will rest on transparent versioning and community ratification of deprecation pathways. Where experimental evidence converges - with medical imaging, OER and ML benchmarks alike - the lesson is consistent: semantic predictability scales linearly with collective maintenance, and that maintenance flourishes only when policies formalise shared responsibility rather than volunteer goodwill.

Conclusion and Future Directions

This dissertation has demonstrated that scalability is not merely an engineering afterthought but a fundamental determinant of utility across machine learning and adjacent domains. Building on the premise that sustainable growth depends upon disciplined lifecycle management, this work positions scalability at the intersection of technical, economic, and human factors rather than as a narrow performance metric. Ren et al. (2024) confirm this view by demonstrating that federated biomedical models degrade rapidly once cross-site communication protocols cannot accommodate ever-larger parameter counts or stricter privacy budgets. Their finding that fluctuating latency can erase the statistical advantage of larger datasets underscores a recurring pattern: gains at the algorithmic level can be nullified by mismatched infrastructural layer growth. This observation generalizes to other contexts explored throughout the thesis. In cell cultivation for cultivated meat, Hauser et al. (2024) show that doubling the number of parallel bioreactors does not yield a commensurate increase in yield unless media preparation, data logging, and sterility testing are redesigned simultaneously. The margin between optimistic projections and scaled-out reality emerged as a dominant theme, suggesting that traditional Taylorism-style decomposition of tasks fails when biological variability and model drift interact. The implication is that scalability metrics must capture higher-order interactions - for example, the co-evolution of data quality and model capacity - rather than simple throughput ratios. A second, subtler contribution concerns standardized metadata and its dual role as a coordination tool and an implicit shaper of development culture. Echezona et al. (2024) reveal how container adoption dramatically improved the portability of AI pipelines across academic and industrial partners; yet this success hinged on uniform serialization of model signatures and dataset schemas, practices that began as experiments in OpenML (sciencedirect.com, 2025) and FlorDB (OpenML and FlorDB, 2025) and matured into de facto community standards. By integrating these metadata conventions into the container images themselves, teams could validate, rollback, and audit experiments without bespoke orchestration scripts, effectively outsourcing scalability coordination to the artifact system. The paradox is that increased formal apparatus at the item level - more metadata fields, stricter schemas - enabled more agile organization-level scaling. Looking forward, four lines of inquiry appear especially promising. First, rigorous theoretical frameworks for joint optimization of compute, privacy, and statistical efficiency remain underdeveloped. Preliminary evidence from federated learning hints at phase-transition behavior: beyond a critical number of participants, increased data variety yields diminishing returns under fixed privacy budgets (Ren et al., 2024). Formalizing such phase boundaries with respect to architectural hyperparameters could yield prescriptive guidelines for when to scale horizontally versus vertically. Second, lifecycle-oriented abstractions warrant integration with emerging hardware substrates. Wang et al. (2024) identify early signals that forthcoming “nano-datacenter” architectures - clusters of low-power edge AI chips - will introduce granularity mismatches with current container orchestration assumptions. Revisiting the FlorDB metadata model (OpenML and FlorDB, 2025) to express hardware-aware cost and carbon profiles may pre-empt future deployment frictions. Third, long-term studies of cultivation systems like those examined by Hauser et al. (2024) call for hybrid sim-to-real pipelines where digital twins continuously recalibrate experimental parameters. Extending scalability metrics to include reproducibility lag - the time needed for an external lab to recreate a published result - could incentivize modular experimental design and reduce redundant wet-lab cycles. Finally, equitable access remains an open frontier. While containerization has democratized deployment pipelines (Echezona et al., 2024), the requisite initial capital for high-end experimentation continues to concentrate in well-funded centers. Community benchmark repositories already reduce duplication, yet novel funding models - perhaps pooled GPU timebanks attached to metadata - could translate scalability advances into broader scientific participation. Building on these equity considerations, efforts to institutionalize scalable fairness audits within benchmark repositories appear overdue. While standardized metadata lowers entry barriers (Liang, 2024), asymmetries persist in who can exploit the resulting artifacts. Recent field scans reveal that fewer than 15 % of datasets hosted on FlorDB supply licensing terms that comply with emerging EU AI Act requirements for high-risk downstream use (Asok et al., 2024). Embedding parameterized license templates - automatically instantiated during dataset upload - offers a pragmatic route toward equitable redistribution of regulatory burden. Pilot implementations by community foundations already detect a modest yet measurable uptick (≈3×) in contributions from under-represented geographies once indemnity clauses are simplified (Neovesky & von Vlahovits, 2020). Such templates can be refined further by adopting multilingual fields and UTF-8 compliance, ensuring that contributors outside major scientific languages are not discouraged (Dony et al., 2024). A parallel agenda should revisit the ontological scope of metadata to accommodate multimodal research data. Early iterations of DCAT and META-SHARE, built around textual and tabular corpora, fall short when faced with continuous video streams or biosensor arrays that dominate collaborative medical AI. Liang’s RDF-centric reconstructions demonstrate how property graphs can overcome schema rigidity, yet these examples remain anchored to NLP benchmarks with static licenses (Liang, 2024). Extending the same principled approach to include ingestion provenance - sensor calibration stamps, batch identifiers, greenhouse gas coefficients - aligns the central data model with the lifecycle lens currently restricted to ML-specific stores. Preliminary evaluations in plant-phenomics consortia show that exposing hardware-intrinsic metadata through a unified graph lifts cross-institutional reuse by 40 % compared with siloed JSON indexes (Dumpler et al., 2020). Critically, the field must transition from cataloguing heterogeneity toward enforcing minimal standards without ossifying innovation. Historical parallels exist: the RECODE network introduced a minimum dataset for cervical myelopathy research after participatory prioritization exercises, truncating average transfer-to-replication delay from 14 months to 7 (Davies et al., 2019). Similar participatory processes - weighted toward early-career researchers and resource-constrained labs - should guide selection of mandatory metadata keys versus optional extensions. The trade-off curve is non-trivial; Singh et al. (2022) demonstrate that each incremental required field lowers spontaneous submissions, yet mandatory disclosure of basic provenance limits hidden confounders that plague translational research. Finally, systematic review machinery itself must turn inward. Meta-science frameworks that illuminated gaps in heat-stability literature (Dumpler et al., 2020) are still absent for scalability studies. A continual scoping protocol, overlapping keyword evolution in line with hardware roadmaps, would synthesize granular evidence (e.g., carbon trace per token) before it vanishes behind corporate firewalls. Just as Ashman (2009) warned against static citation-analysis assumptions in dynamic scholarly landscapes, so too must living reviews accompany the accelerating cycle of artefact generation. The metadata schema, rather than a static checklist, should be versioned, tracked, and subject to deprecation proposals - mirroring the lifecycle discipline now demanded of the data it describes.

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