However, from the point of view of a digital humanist who wishes to turn these catalog records into a dataset allowing for further investigation of the genre, accuracy with regard to the intellectual contributions of <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">praeses</hi> and <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">respondens</hi> in individual works is of secondary importance anyway.<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3" target="ftn0" /> If it is possible to map the roles of <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">praeses</hi> and <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">respondens</hi> on some categories of the metadata standard, we can reconstruct or infer the historical roles from the corresponding fields of the metadata standard. So we would have to pick one asymmetrical pair of categories – be it ‘author vs. supervisor’ or ‘author vs. opponent’ – which then would have to be applied consistently across the whole dataset.