Parsing Metadata: Really, It's Just Data

by Ken Orr

One of the problems with the IT field is that, absent something like the model year for cars popularized by Alfred Sloan in the 1920s, IT companies have to keep coming up with new terms for old ideas. Recently, I've found myself in meetings with consultants and IT managers in which the term "metadata" has been used to allow a group of clueless participants seem with it. Indeed, I've noticed that the term is being used in the titles of an increasing number of books, conference presentations, and software products.

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Parsing Metadata: Really, It's Just Data1 October 2008