Data entry, a person-based process is one of the important basic tasks needed when no machine-readable version of the informa ... tion for planned computer-based analysis or processing is readily available. Sometimes what is needed is information about information that can be greater than the value of the information itself. It can also involve filling in required information which is then data-entered from what was written on the research document, such as the growth in available items in a category. This is a higher level of abstraction than Metadata information about data. read more