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David Weinberger writes:
"So, in the Third Age of Order, all data is metadata. Contents are labels. Data is all surface and no insides. It's all handles and no suitcase. It's a folder whose content is just another label. It's all sticker and no bumper."
Or maybe, since all data is metadata, metadata has become meaningless. The ability — the desire — to search every aspect of the data in context hasn't made the data less substantive — handle, label, sticker — but questions the need for metadata itself.
Posted by Chris Hodge at October 25, 2004 11:30 AM | TrackBack | Links to this post