About
Recording facts, not judgements: the principle that shapes everything else
The moment a registry starts assessing rather than recording, it becomes something that cannot be corrected or checked.
#provenance
About
For Partners
Institutional data exchange: agree definitions before you exchange anything
Most data exchange problems between institutions are not technical. They are two organisations meaning different things by the same field name.
About
Why a registry matters: the alternative is everyone rebuilding the same list
Without a shared reference, every institution, funder and analyst maintains their own version — all slightly different, none correctable.
Quality Assurance
Trustworthy data: provenance on every field, or it is just a list
What separates a registry from a scraped list is not accuracy. It is being able to show where every value came from.