A similar idea is " curation at source " used in the context of Laboratory Information Management Systems LIMS . This refers more specifically to automatic recording of metadata or information about data at the point of capture, and has been developed to apply semantic web techniques to integrate laboratory instrumentation and documentation systems.
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I'm asking my question because I'm wondering if the UK government is going to start recording peoples identities from remote iris scans as they move around the country in the same way that they do now with automatic recording of car registration plates . talk ) 09 : 50, 7 July 2009 ( UTC)