This article gives readers a glimpse into what is intended by metadata and metadata repositories. Specifically, "semantic metadata ensures that technical and business users are relying on common business meaning, regardless of how it is represented or referred to. This reduces the all too frequent communications gap that exists within large organizations between IT and the business." Sounds good, but look at the presumption it is based on: "Semantics define a concept's meaning in a manner that is both unambiguous and universally correct in meaning." This is not a sound presumption on which to base an industry. Semantics - human semantics - work precisely because they are fuzzy and sometimes liable to error. It is through the reconceptualization of meaning that advance in science or any discipline is possible. Is stasis in meaning the best avenue for an information society? Go ask Byzantium.
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