 So, in the social sciences, we've had a problem that our data are created by machine, but our metadata are often made by hand. And one of the roadblocks has been that projects use the major statistical packages to do data management, and those packages are not set up to handle metadata. The C2 metadata project is a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and we're writing software that will read the command scripts that are used to manage data in the major statistical packages, extract from those command scripts provenance metadata about the creation of variables, and then incorporate that information into data documentation initiative metadata and also metadata for the ecological markup language. And the end goal is that there should be a continuous automated process of capturing metadata that parallels the process of data creation.