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meta-data-technology
has competitors:
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) [ competitors ]
- Topic Maps (TM) [ competitors ]
Comment:
names uncontrolled, values uncontrolled --> Chaos minus Google
Comment:
data about objects -- documents, other data -- meta meta data?
Comment:
names controlled, values controlled -- flat list (aka controlled vocabulary) -- synonym list (thesaurus) -- hierarchical list (taxonomy) -- arbitrary graph (simple ontology) -- domain model (full-blown ontology)
Comment:
often attribute oriented -- and object/document centric -- attributes = name + value
Comment:
names controlled, values uncontrolled -- e.g. Dublin Core -- author: "...", keywords: "something, else" -- keywords are the most sensitive part