- From: Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:32:58 -0800
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
I agree with using the word "metadata" in this context. -Annette On 12/19/18 3:20 PM, kcoyle via GitHub wrote: > I very much agree about "properties" and am struggling to find a > better word or phrase: > > - vocabulary terms (which could include classes) > - data elements (rather old-fashioned but could also include classes) > - data terms (Singapore framework uses "metadata terms" - "data terms" > sounds odd to me) > - elements from selected vocabularies or ontologies - longer, but also > doesn't address whether one can define new elements with in > vocabulary, which also has come up in the past. > > I get the desire to speak of "data" as well as "metadata" but I > wouldn't want to confound a profile with the instance data in a > dataset, such as statistical data. The profile is not instance data > (except of the profile itself, but that seems tautological), but a set > of terms and constraints that are used to create instance data that > usually has a descriptive role. > Maybe we need to define data and metadata? > -- Annette Greiner NERSC Data and Analytics Services Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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