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Re: "thou shalt not conflate meta-data with data"

From: frosty <frosty_at_bogus.tld>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:29:05 -0800
Message-ID: <jqOdnedSkvqsBr7fRVn-1g@adelphia.com> 





Neo wrote:


> If a db stores a person named john who is male. Is the name john

> metadata since it is data about data (the person)? Is the gender male

> metadata since it is data about data (the person)?




A person is not data.  A name is data.  An age is data.



If you had one field that had "M" and "48" in it, and
another field with "Sex" and "Age" in it, then the former
would be data and the latter would be metadata.



Should be pretty clear to a person; might confuse a 'bot.


-- 
frosty 


Received on Mon Feb 28 2005 - 16:29:05 CST












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