[Sigia-l] Faceted Classification

[Chick Foxgrover (wex)]

Yes it makes more sense when referring to packetizing video or audio 
streams for instance. It's the packets that contain metadata that 
allow them to be reassembled at the delivery end. Metadata is 
"descriptive" that travel with the "data" they describe.

At 12:36 PM -0400 7/11/02, Listera wrote:
>"Christopher Fahey [askrom]" wrote:
>
>>  It has always seemed to me that "faceted classification" is just a fancy
>>  way of saying "put your content into a database and use lots of metadata
>>  fields".
>
>Right on. In the interest of simplifying stuff even further, I'd love to get
>rid of the word 'metadata'. It sounds as highfalutin as 'faceted' without
>adding much meaning. In a database, it's just another (data) field. In fact,
>*any* field (besides the main data object) is 'data about that data',
>including its record ID. Using non-jargon terminology gets us one step
>closer to being better understood by others, including designers,
>developers, managers, business people, etc. In building database-based
>systems for various media for over a decade, I have never used the words
>'faceted' or 'metadata' once in front of clients, and I don't believe I have
>never been misunderstood on that account :-)
>
>Best,
>
>Ziya
>