[Freebase-discuss] [BULK] Re: Subject matter experts VERSUS Academics

[Christopher R. Maden]

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On 04/25/2012 05:53 PM, Gordon Mackenzie wrote:
> I agree that or the use of Expert in general as it seems very hard 
> to define, though there are legal attempts to do so ( 
> http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Expert+Testimony ). 
> Are experts mostly self-declared?

Having spent some time trying to model legally-qualified experts for a
previous employer, I strongly recommend staying away from that (or, at
a minimum, approaching it separately).  Like many things involving the
law, it is a whole ’nother kind of thing altogether.  It sounds here
like an “expert” is pretty much anyone that anyone else labels as an
expert (the press, a court, an academic, another expert...).  Keep it
simple for now.

~Chris
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