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

> ... That should have made things as clear as mud.

When modeling "John is a person & John is male & male is a gender" as shown below, which data is meta data? Which data "step[s] outside the language to talk about the language itself" ?

T_Gender
ID Name
1 Male
2 Female

T_Person
ID Name Gender
3 John Male(1)
4 Mary Female(2) Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 15:15:33 CST