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From Data to Understanding: The Public Mission of PCS

PCS aims to transform fragmented scientific observations into visual knowledge that researchers, students, and the public can explore.

The public mission of PCS is From Data to Understanding. Scientific observations are often fragmented across institutions, formats, and disciplines. PCS is an attempt to build a common-state layer that makes relationships among those observations easier to see.

This work does not replace source institutions or allow AI to substitute for scientific validation. It aims to lower the barrier to understanding while preserving provenance, uncertainty, and traceability—so science is not accessible only to scientists.