How is metadata shared?
- Metadata as language; metadata records as sets of statements
- Effective transmission of information requires agreement on
- semantics
- what terms mean
- e.g. “cat”, “to sit”, “mat”
- structure
- significance of arrangement of terms
- e.g. sentence: subject -> verb -> object (in English….)
- syntax
- rules of expression
- “The cat sat on the mat.”