Wonderful technique of communicating the concept of metadata! Thanks so much
for sharing this, Wayne.

Florence Paisey


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Hoff, Wayne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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