Formal metadata: information and software

Are the source data original observations made by the authors and their cooperators?

Data_Quality_Information:
  Lineage:
    Process_Step:
      Process_Description: Methodology and procedures
      Process_Date:  YYYY or YYYYMMDD
      Process_Time:  Include only if it's important

If you want to provide contact information for the people who did the work but aren't the Point_of_Contact, add

      Process_Contact:
        Contact_Information:
          See Providing contact information

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