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Subject:Re: User friendly term for Metadata From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:03:41 -0700
It was my understanding that things like author, title, and date are the
data. Combined, as for a bibliography, they become information. Who woulda
thunk it.
Bev
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Anderson [SMTP:royanderson -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM]
>
> The handy technical writing glossary at
>http://www.iinet.net.au/~mbuckler/glossary.shtml#M defines Metadata as:
>
> "Metadata
> Information about data in a document. For example, the name of
> the author."
>
> Apparently, "metadata" has become the cool, obtuse, and abbreviated
> successor to confusing terms such as document, file, field, variable,
> name, label, attributes, and properties.
>
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