I like that answer. People will immediately connect to how they look for it
and that gets them most of the concept.
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Subject: Re: How would you Define Meta Data to non-records people ?
Brent Reid wrote:
>How would you explain meta data so that engineers, HR people, etc., can
define
>what fields they want to use?
Metadata is any sort of information someone would use to describe a
document if that document wasn't available. Note the "someone would
use" part; if you ask people to think about what information or
strategies they typically use to find documents, that might help them
to make the connection to types of fields.
Good luck.
Taina Makinen
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