The inestimable Bernhard Eversburg, man of letters, musical muse, and
catalog systems designer extraordinaire, submitted the following in response
to my challenge for a succinct statement of the 1:1 principle.
Its not clear to me that it suffices to meet our every purpose, and I hope
Bernhard won't be giving up his day job any time soon, but there's a t-shirt
winging his way in any case.
stu
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Make metadata one to one,
just one per item, is the task.
Rather less,
more's a mess!
"But what's an item", now you ask?
If that's in doubt, do none.
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