To: Moseley
Minor pet peeve of mine on this subject. The information indicated is data, not metadata.
Metadata is data about data. An example would be that a phone number (data) is ten numeric characters (metadata).
5 posted on
05/07/2014 4:08:12 AM PDT by
fruser1
To: fruser1
The information indicated is data, not metadata.
Agreed - if someone were to look up the term in the way it's used classically in computer science, you would think it's just the schema. And you would be wrong.
6 posted on
05/07/2014 4:11:22 AM PDT by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: fruser1
Minor pet peeve of mine on this subject. The information indicated is data, not metadata.
Also, agree. The invention of new words is often used to hide sleight of hand and is a good sign of flim-flam.
I refer to the term being used, not as an endorsement.
7 posted on
05/07/2014 5:58:43 AM PDT by
Moseley
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