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To my question > > You need not be a professional automobile mechanic to do certain jobs, > > but you still have to use appropriate tools and observe certain rules. In > > your own best interest and that of others. > F.A. Roos replies: > How good is the average driver in automobile mechanics? > Not good enough. If you insist that the average metadata producer need not be better than that at meta-mechanics, then what can we expect? "Garbage in - garbage out" is still a valid rule of data systems. And I'm still not convinced you can keep too much garbage from getting in by any amount of artificial intelligence. Bernhard Eversberg Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329, D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836 e-mail [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%