<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Thanks Wendy. This is helpful!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"></div>Julian</div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aanVsaWFuZ2F1dGllckBnLmhhcnZhcmQuZWR1&type=zerocontent&guid=220cd34f-898a-4ca3-bba8-7ccd80ca2e26"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:14 PM Wendy Thomas <<a href="mailto:wlt@umn.edu" target="_blank">wlt@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Wendy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:58 PM Gautier, Julian <<a href="mailto:juliangautier@g.harvard.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">juliangautier@g.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>User generated:</div><div>- Typing your name in an author field</div><div>- Choosing a term from a vocabulary</div><div><br></div><div>System generated:</div><div>- When a system applies a timestamp (publication date or version date), </div><div>- 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</div><div>- When a system uses the semantic relations among other metadata to infer something, like a person's place of birth</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for reading!</div><div>Julian</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-5398572449734790737m_981987161456834053gmail-m_-1804639077141686609gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Julian Gautier</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Product Research Specialist, <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">IQSS</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="max-height:1px" hspace="streak-pt-mark"><img style="width: 0px; overflow: hidden; max-height: 0px;" alt=""><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div>
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