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The high quality of the observations made with the telescopes of the new generation (see e.g. The Messenger 59, page 14) is a very strong motivation for a systematic archiving of the data acquired at the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), located in the Norte Chico at La Silla, Chile. The other —more classical— reasons to archive data obtained at ESO telescopes are: (a) to keep an historical record of observed objects, for later analysis of possible long-term variabilities (b) to reuse data for other scientific purposes and therefore avoid the duplication of observations and (c) to allow research based on the accumulated material, e.g. statistical studies, evolution of an object over several years, including studies on the evolution on the instruments.
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Ochsenbein, F. (1991). The ESO Archive Project. In: Albrecht, M.A., Egret, D. (eds) Databases & On-line Data in Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 171. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3250-3_11
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