Re: "thou shalt not conflate meta-data with data"
Date: 28 Feb 2005 15:03:55 -0800
Message-ID: <1109631835.715262.67950_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
> A person is not data.
> A name is data. An age is data.
So what is the fundamental distinction between data and not data? That way I can also tell if X is or isn't 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.
[Quoted] If a db models "john is a person, john is male AND male is a gender" is male data or meta data? Can the same thing (ie male) be both data and meta data? And john would not be data according to you since john is a person. Is this what you meant?
> Should be pretty clear to a person; might confuse a 'bot.
So what is the fundamental distinction between data and meta data? It wasn't clear. Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 00:03:55 CET