{% extends "aristotle_mdr/create/de_template_wrapper.html" %} {% block creationTips %}
The key to good metadata is reuse.

Enter a name and short description for the what you would like to create, and Aristotle will do a quick search to see if similar objects exist to reuse.

If no items with similar terms exist, your search terms will be used to pre-populate any new items you create.

Data Elements are descriptions of how an data might be recorded for a particular attribute of an entity, described by the combination of a Data Element Concept and a Value Domain. For example: Age of a Person, in whole years or Number of employees of a Business, recorded in coded 5 year increments.

{% endblock %} {% block formarea %}
What type of thing are you collecting infomation about? For example: Person, Business, Event...
What information do you want to find out? For example: Age, height, colour...
How would you store this information? For example: Number, code, text...
{% endblock %}