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Reconciliation Model

This phase establishes the data structures that make reconciliation possible. There are no user-visible changes to the SyRF interface.

What Changed

SyRF now tracks whether each study has a "gold-standard" authoritative answer set. Behind the scenes, the system determines how each study reaches authority:

  • Single annotator: When only one person annotates a study and the project requires only one annotator, their answers are automatically promoted to gold-standard status. No manual reconciliation is needed.
  • Multiple annotators: When two or more people annotate the same study, the system flags it for reconciliation. A designated reconciler reviews the disagreements and records the final answers.

These rules run automatically as annotators complete their work. You do not need to configure or trigger anything -- the system classifies studies in the background.

Why This Matters

This automatic classification is what makes the Reconciliation Workflow possible. Without it, the system would have no way to identify which studies need reconciliation and which already have trustworthy answers.

For projects where each study is annotated by a single person (a common scenario), the system creates gold-standard records automatically with zero additional effort.