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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Stu Weibel wrote:
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> My personal (but *STRONG*) belief is that severe civil penalties should
> be brought to bear on anyone using the term meta-metadata.
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> Metadata is first-class data; it certainly can have descriptive
> metadata of its own.
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> Now all the heady DC4 stuff is nearly put to bed, perhaps one of you could
> enlighten an absolute meta-neophyte.
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> Is there such a thing as metadata of/for(?) metadata? Are there rules to
> describe, say the creation date of a metadata record, or the creator, or
> the last-modified data or the modification history etc. Seems to me that
> some of these things impinge directly on the "quality" of the metadata and
> may be of concern to people who maintain databases of metadata, but I don't
> think I've seen any discussion of this in my recent quest for discovery.
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