Miko.
Some people may argue that the more useless and intractable the data
- the more likely it is to be metadata... ; -)
Traditionally when people think data - they are thinking of
business-data - aka information about tangible real world stuff and
things - rather than abstract data about data itself that relates to
things, material or otherwise...
Although I have seen no less an authority than Dan Paolini argue
that there is no such things as metadata really - so who am I here to
even suggest such a distinction?!?
>
http://www.dama-phila.org/DanPaolini-EnterpriseApproachtoMetadataManagement.pdf
But as Dan rightly points out - its Convergence that counts -
stupid!
Let's hope for more registry utilization and more convergence in
2006!!
DW
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE:
[regrep] Pre-Holiday Registry Riddle (Requesting
Quick
Feedback)
From: "Miko Matsumura"
<>
Date: Tue, January 03, 2006 12:39
pm
To: "Chiusano Joseph" <>, "ebXML
Regrep"
<>
Trick
question...Metadata is data. (sorry for the non-answer)
I know,
people want to know if it's one or the other--if I were forced to choose
I would say data, since it's a repository as well as a registry. Since
metadata is data, you can say it holds data (and also the data that
happens to be about data).
Happy New
Year!
Miko
-----Original Message-----
From: Chiusano
Joseph [mailto:]
Sent: Wed 12/21/2005 1:13
PM
To: ebXML Regrep
Cc:
Subject: [regrep] Pre-Holiday
Registry Riddle (Requesting Quick Feedback)
Here's a
pre-holiday registry riddle that I would value feedback
on:
Knowing that ebXML Registry can be thought of as a service
registry, and assuming (hypotetically) that you were asked to
categorize an ebXML Registry as either a "data registry" or a "metadata
registry", which of the 2 choices ("data" or "metadata") would you
pick?
The reason I ask is that I hear both choices discussed in
various forums, and I know that one person's data registry may be
another person's metadata registry (and vice-versa).
Thanks -
and Happy Holidays!
Joe
Joseph
Chiusano
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