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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>, "'xml-dev@ic.ac.uk'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 11:16:09 -0800
At 01:14 PM 12/2/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>The second example is an interesting choice. After all, the full OED
>would probably count as metadata to people who bother to make the
>distinction:
These are murky waters. But there are a couple of things that are
incontrovertably true:
1. All metadata is data. Given an aggregation of data items, each
application can and will make its own decisions as to which is "data"
and which "meta". Thus a common syntax for both, to the extent
possible, is a good thing.
2. Not all data is metadata. Examples: this email message; Chopin's
Nocturnes; Tuxedo.gif.
Operationally, my experience suggests that in stuff that is
not metadata, ordering matters. The converse is true; if ordering matters,
it's probably not metadata. There are exceptions but you have to
work pretty hard. -Tim
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