Talk:Paradata

Disambiguation
Reading http://visualizationparadata.wordpress.com/ I wonder whether "paradata" should receive its own disambiguation entry referering to here (as Paradata (Administrative Surveys)), Paradata (Learning Resource Analytics) and to Paradata (Virtual Heritage). Any opinions? --GVogeler (talk) 09:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

The term "paradata" is increasingly used to denote the capturing of process information in 3D modeling processes. I too suggest a disambiguation entry, but using the wider Paradata (3D modeling) which also encompass paradata in virtual heritage.--Li.B.Borj (talk) 14:53, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Granularity
I am uncertain that the distinction between metadata and paradata is a valid distinction or that adding adjectives makes the concept of paradata sufficiently distinct. The fact that the metadata required for survey responses is different from metadata for other resources doesn't change the fact that like other metadata it is descriptive and through that description aids the interpretation of the resource. Paradata appears to be metadata applied at a very granular level but it's function remains the same, descriptive. Metadata is frequently used, not just for description of a resource, but also for processes associated with a resource, or as a trigger for transformation of the resource. There doesn't seem to be sufficient justification to separate the concept of paradata from the concept of metadata. Cecil.Somerton (talk) 22:11, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I think paradata is especially associated to survey information, e.g. the context of data collection; was it during work hours that the question was answered, was it noisy, did we get responses from young people or old ones. Metadata is more commonly applied to computer science aspects -- the data fields or columns, their data types and category systems and meanings and relations to other data.  Specialists seem to use the terms in different context although they overlap.  So I prefer the articles to be separate.  -- econterms (talk) 20:44, 29 August 2018 (UTC)