discussion status & my recommendations

[Paul Harrison]

Ray Plante wrote:
> Hey Kevin,
> 
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, KevinBenson wrote:
> 
>>The only one I am still unclear about is verificationLevel and not sure if I
>>agree with the notion still that any registry can change this value (at
>>least not on the vr:Resource).
> 
> 
> I think, then, this would make an excellent topic of discussion in Kyoto.  
> Let's plan to take it up.  
> 
> 
>>A final comment is this makes some extra work to change the logic around to
>>have the ability to change an external Resource (not owned/managed). And
>>then figure out if you should take or not take the verificationLevel from
>>another full registry. But yes probably could be done with not to much
>>headache.
> 
> 
> I would expect that the choice of accepting the verificationLevel set by 
> the provider is a policy one made up front and not incorporated into your 
> harvesting software (although you are free to do so).  That is, either you 
> decide to blindly accept what is there for all records, or you do the 
> verification yourself and score it appropriately independent of what the 
> provider says (it's not really their call).  

I think that Kevin is right and there should be a universal policy on 
what to do when the verification level is changed for a record in a 
registry that does not belong to that registry - especially in the case 
that there has been a human intervention, as this is very costly in 
terms of effort, and unless everyone applies the same rules to the 
propagation of the verification level there is a chance that it will get 
downgraded when harvesting occurs.

I think that there is an argument for introducing a (repeatable) 
"stamping" element early - after all the setting of the verification 
level is a form of peer review, and it is valuable to know that a 3rd 
party has raised the verification level rather than simply the original 
authors doing that - at the moment we have no way of capturing that 
information.

Paul

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Paul Harrison
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