RE: [regrep] Pre-Holiday Registry Riddle (Requesting Quick Feedback)

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Miko.

 

Some people may argue that the more useless and intractable the data - the more likely it is to be metadata... ; -)

 

Traditionally when people think data - they are thinking of business-data - aka information about tangible real world stuff and things - rather than abstract data about data itself that relates to things, material or otherwise...

 

Although I have seen no less an authority than Dan Paolini argue that there is no such things as metadata really - so who am I here to even suggest such a distinction?!?

 

>
http://www.dama-phila.org/DanPaolini-EnterpriseApproachtoMetadataManagement.pdf

But as Dan rightly points out - its Convergence that counts - stupid!

 

Let's hope for more registry utilization and more convergence in 2006!!

DW

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE:
> [regrep] Pre-Holiday Registry Riddle (Requesting
> Quick
> Feedback)
> From: "Miko Matsumura"
> <mmatsumura@infravio.com>
> Date: Tue, January 03, 2006 12:39
> pm
> To: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>, "ebXML
> Regrep"
> <regrep@lists.oasis-open.org>
>
> Trick
> question...Metadata is data. (sorry for the non-answer) 
>
> I know,
> people want to know if it's one or the other--if I were forced to choose
> I would say data, since it's a repository as well as a registry. Since
> metadata is data, you can say it holds data (and also the data that
> happens to be about data).
>
> Happy New
> Year!
> Miko
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Chiusano
> Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com] 
> Sent: Wed 12/21/2005 1:13
> PM 
> To: ebXML Regrep 
> Cc: 
> Subject: [regrep] Pre-Holiday
> Registry Riddle (Requesting Quick Feedback)
>
>
> Here's a
> pre-holiday registry riddle that I would value feedback
> on:
>
> Knowing that ebXML Registry can be thought of as a service
> registry, and assuming (hypotetically) that you were asked to
> categorize an ebXML Registry as either a "data registry" or a "metadata
> registry", which of the 2 choices ("data" or "metadata") would you
> pick?
>
> The reason I ask is that I hear both choices discussed in
> various forums, and I know that one person's data registry may be
> another person's metadata registry (and vice-versa).
>
> Thanks -
> and Happy Holidays!
>
> Joe
>
> Joseph
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