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

Neo wrote:
>
> 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)
>

There is no meta data here! Cheers, Frank.

PS I could derive some if you need it! Received on Wed Mar 02 2005 - 14:34:38 CET