[Sigia-l] data as information?

Ed Housman em_housman at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 28 13:00:20 EDT 2005


James, and All:

James says:

> Are the two communities (data architecture and information
> architecture) discussing the same thing from different perspectives?
> Even our terms are different - they often use the phrase "meta data"
> as a synonym of the term "metadata".

The space between "meta" and "data" is important, and whether that space
is there or not probably means that the speakers are in different
worlds, or contexts.

The same string "Kill the umpire" means different things in a baseball
stadium and a courtroom.  

--Ed



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