[DDI-users] Thoughts about why you would need to express that metadata is user- or system-generated

[Gautier, Julian]

Thanks Wendy. This is helpful!

Julian
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:14 PM Wendy Thomas <wlt at umn.edu> wrote:

> Personally, I think the difference is in the quality of the metadata.
> Metadata captured at point of conception by an automated means is a)
> preferable simply because is lessens the burden on the investigator, and b)
> theoretically more accurate (but is it?). Does this differentiation make a
> difference to the end user? to the resulting research? I'm not sure. That
> said, if users think this is important be sure to file it as a JIRA issue
> with the DDI Technical Committee so that it can be reviewed for addition to
> the standard. That said, we do have in DDI Codebook the ability to identify
> if the metadata content was provided by the source or by the archive. In
> Lifecycle that is accomplished by the ability to layer on information from
> the archive to that received by the archive.
>
> Wendy
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:58 PM Gautier, Julian <
> juliangautier at g.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In cases where metadata is both user-generated and system-generated, why
>> would it be important to indicate (e.g. in some attribute in a metadata
>> document or in a user interface) which metadata is entered by people versus
>> entered by a system? Here are some examples of what I mean by user- and
>> system-generated metadata:
>>
>> User generated:
>> - Typing your name in an author field
>> - Choosing a term from a vocabulary
>>
>> System generated:
>> - When a system applies a timestamp (publication date or version date),
>> - When a system uses an algorithm that uses a common name dictionary and
>> other metadata to figure out that an author is a person or an organization
>> - When a system uses the semantic relations among other metadata to infer
>> something, like a person's place of birth
>>
>> If anyone could point me to discussions about the importance of
>> expressing when metadata is user- or system-generated, if this is even a
>> concern, that would be awesome!
>>
>> I know this question is broader than just this DDI listserv; just thought
>> I'd start here since I'm familiar with Codebook and also wondering if there
>> would be a way to express in Codebook that certain metadata is user or
>> system generated.
>>
>> Thanks for reading!
>> Julian
>>
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>> Julian Gautier
>> Product Research Specialist, IQSS <http://www.iq.harvard.edu/>
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