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Subject:Re: User friendly term for Metadata From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- JAEDWORKS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:20:25 -0700
At 7:49 AM -0700 4/28/99, pete swisher wrote:
>Metadata means "data about data." In the software I'm documenting, an end
>user can build custom data views using metadata fields. For example, I could
>choose the file name, file location, thumbnail, and file size metadata
>fields in building such a data view. Then, when I view a file, I only see
>that information.
How about "file information" or "file info"?
In this context, it sounds like the data chunks you're dealing with are
files, so you can use a phrase that's a bit more specific than the general
abstraction "metadata".
