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The experience gained while building a science archive for the NTT (Albrecht & Grosbøl, 1992) has shown that the main problems lie less in solving the technical issues than in making the observatory and the community aware of the advantages of a traceable and predictable telescope operation. Traceable operations allow to quickly understand the source of problems and is the basis for high-quality, detailed scientific analysis of the data. Predictable operations allows for good observing programme preparation and is the basis for high efficiency.
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Albrecht, M.A., Péron, M., Pirenne, B. (1995). Building the archive facility of the ESO Very Large Telescope. In: Egret, D., Albrecht, M.A. (eds) Information & On-Line Data in Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 203. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0397-8_7
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