manual approach definition
manual approach. , means that a human intervention is needed at some stage(s) of the production process, to download certain data, to get additional data from other sources via collaborations, to collate data, remove possible duplicates, and harmonize selected data. In order to give more room to European sources, the 2018 version of indicator ‘11. Mining activity in the EU’ will mix SNL and Minerals4EU data (G.A. Blengini, pers. comm., 2017). Manual interventions will occur in practice at two different stages: