Thomas Krichel wrote:
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A butterfly specimen has no metadata since the specimen is not
data.
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This looks like metadata attached to butterflies to me.
http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk/
You can make metadata for *anything* whether it happens to exist or not. We have made metadata for traffic, for feelings and opinions. These are "collections" in the broadest sense of the word, for example, metadata describing the weather that is placed in a database for later recall. The only problem is, when it's a rainy day, I can actually find and retrieve the book to cuddle up with, but unfortunately, I can't retrieve that actual sunny, blue day.
Jim
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Received on Tue Jan 19 2010 - 09:15:55 EST