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The Metadata Contact responsibility gives the party that is responsible for creating and maintaining the metadata. The xPath of the source of this information in the DIF and ECHO dialects is given in Table 21.
Table 1. Sources for Metadata Contact information
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The Resource Author / Originator Responsibility gives the party that is responsible for creating the dataset. This is typically the Principal Investigator for the project or their Institution. The xPath of the source of this information in the DIF and ECHO dialects is given in Table 4.
Table 43. Sources for Resource Author / Originator information.
Dialect | Source |
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ECHO |
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Table 5 4 shows the frequency of occurrence of elements of the Resource Author / Originator Responsibility / Parties for fifteen seventeen collections in the CMR. The data indicates that seven five of fifteen seventeen collections include some of this information for between 2 and 100% of their records. Most of the records that include any information include consistent contact information (identical numbers in all rows of Table 5).
Table 54. Occurrences of Resource Author / Originator Responsibility
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