I did a presentation on Metadata at an AIIM gathering, and felt
completely upstaged (luckily in private afterwards!) by someone who
demonstrated metadata in a very creative way to her non-records,
non-techy people.  She got half a dozen to a dozen cans of various kinds
of soup.  She asked the student to arrange them in various ways -
alphabetically, by company, by kind of soup, etc.  Then she peeled all
of the labels off and asked them to do it again: of course, they
couldn't.

Metadata is the electronic equivalent of soup labels.

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