Could this conversation be described as metametadata?
*runs, hides*
Thanks,
Becky
Bonus: Metacow - http://wisconsin.cowparade.com/cow/detail/3973/
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Richard, Joel M <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'll second this "amen". It was only when I entered the library world that
> I learned about the concept of metadata. Of course, I'd been using metadata
> for 12 years, but I'd never labeled it as such. To me it was just data.
> Useful information. It took time for this concept of metadata to mesh with
> what I already knew.
>
> Also, is this simply an over-classification of things that seems to be a
> humorously stereotypical thing that librarians do? :)
>
> --Joel
>
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> Joel Richard
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> On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote:
>
> > amen!
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> My take on this discussion, coming from a research lab: Metadata isn't
> >> meta.
> >>
> >> For example, in recordings of, say, blood pressure over time, it's
> >> common to think about things such as participant identifiers,
> >> acquisition dates, event markers, and sampling rates as "metadata,"
> >> and the actual measurements as "data."
> >>
> >> But really: those meta things aren't ancillary to data analysis;
> >> they're essential in keeping analyses organized, and often important
> >> parameters in running an analysis at all.
> >>
> >> Breaking things down into data versus metadata I think, encourages a
> >> false (and not very interesting) dichotomy. If information has a use,
> >> call it what it is: data. Store everything that's useful.
> >>
> >> If you don't yet have a use in mind for your data, then you have a
> >> place to start working :)
> >>
> >> -n
> >>
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