Re: Intrinsic vs extrinsic metadata (my action #54)

Dear all,

Thanks for the very interesting discussion.
I'm afraid some of it may be too demanding on us (workload-wise) and our readers though.

I mean, pointing to DCAT and voiD is useful. And having a terminology like what Bernadette has put up at [1] is also great. People need help with the notions.
But diagrams give a feeling of commitment and formlization. It can be useful, but are our readers really expecting a theory on what a dataset, data, etc are?
To me this is what the part on the top of Bernadette's graph hints at: what is data, what is a dataset, why a distribution encompasses a bundle of data+dataset... Why is a vocabulary relevant only to metadata and not a dataset (see question at [2]).
Same for the extrinsic/intrisinc gradation: why would license metadata be less extrinsic than access metadata? And why should we really bother discussing this?
All these can be quite slippery slopes.

I am very much in favour of the simple listing at [3]. I understood  it in ten seconds, it didn't raise too many questions of the sort 'what did you mean', it it seemed relatively complete. I'm not claiming it is, but at least after 30 seconds of thinking I couldn't see an obvious miss, and this is good enough to leave me in peace ;-)

Cheers,

antoine

PS: by the way what is the 'general metadata' in Bernadette's graph?


[1] http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Best_practices_guidelines#Terminology
[2]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dwbp-wg/2014Jul/0040.html
[3] https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/index.php?title=Guidance_on_the_Provision_of_Metadata&oldid=1431#Intrinsic_vs_Extrinsic_Metadata

Received on Friday, 11 July 2014 14:06:48 UTC