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Subject:Re: User friendly term for Metadata From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:39:25 -0700
Michael Wing wrote:
>I would suggest keeping the word metadata but with a big, easy-to-find
>explanation as to what you mean by metadata in your document.
>
My intellectual guru Kenneth Burke once coined the word "logology" to mean
"words about words." Thus a discussion of the words used in this thread
would be logology about metadata.
--Wayne (<META NAME="LOGOLOGY" CONTENT="METADATA">)
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