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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT: sheets of old photos
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:32:06 -0700
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On or about 8/2/2005 08:54 AM a carrier pigeon from Carol Collins delivered:
>Please - what does "metadata" mean? I know what data means - but
>"meta"?? Couldn't find it on Wikipedia or my dictionary. Sounds
>kinda geekish.......

"Data about Data" would be the simplest.

Google is good for random searching when one's normal resources fail.
http://www.answers.com/topic/meta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata_%28computing%29

In this case, the "data" is the image (in the file).
Metadata would be data about the image file -- date the photo was
taken, where taken, what camera, who is in the photo, etc.

Or, to stretch the point, using a TMG feature... A Source of
a Source would be a MetaSource <G>

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