# Add notes attribute to Artifact

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/add-notes-attribute-to-artifact/20033
**Category:** Developer Discussion
**Created:** [June 29, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/add-notes-attribute-to-artifact/20033 "2021-06-29T14:33:51Z")
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### Author: ![jwdebelius](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jwdebelius/32/9655_2.png) [@jwdebelius](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jwdebelius)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/add-notes-attribute-to-artifact/20033/1 "2021-06-29T14:33:51Z")

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Hello delightful QIIME 2 friends,

I may be duplicating a github issue, or posts somehwere. But, I am once again running into the problem that I wish I could add source provenance to my artifacts when I import them. This would be useful for things like databases that aren't covered by RESCRIPt (Did Justine 12 months ago use Greengenes, GTDB 54, the new GTDB, HOMD, or something else?), or when people import tables due to external processing.

Best,  
Justine

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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/add-notes-attribute-to-artifact/20033/2 "2021-06-29T14:59:59Z")

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great idea! Just linking to older discussion on the topic (with enclosed GH issue links):

> [@Annotation/Comments option for artifacts](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/annotation-comments-option-for-artifacts/3949):
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> First off, big congrats on the release of qiime 2018.4 fireworkstropical_drink! With the ever growing number of options and branches of the available pipelines I was thinking it might now be useful to have an annotation option when creating artifacts. For example: qiime feature-table rarefy \ --i-table table.qza --p-sampling-depth 2000 \ --o-rarefied-table rarefied-table.qza \ --comment "2000 depth drops S02 & S04 only, could increase to 7000 at a cost of losing S05 and S07 also" This wo…

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### Author: ![jwdebelius](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jwdebelius/32/9655_2.png) [@jwdebelius](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jwdebelius)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/add-notes-attribute-to-artifact/20033/3 "2021-06-29T15:02:00Z")

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I missed that! Thank you @Nicholas_Bokulich!