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Daily Archives: October 21st, 2010

Lunch in Pittsburgh

I skipped the conference lunch and went and got a Primanti Bros. sandwich and ate it outside in market square, with a cup of Starbucks coffee in my own to-go mug. Surely the ultimate Pittsburgh meal. All for about $7. I got cheese, what they call combo – Swiss and Provolone, and there was a […]

Metadata Conundrum

So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata […]

In Pittsburgh

Like I wrote to my brother last night, it’s so familiar and so strange to be here. The hotel where I’m staying for the conference I must’ve gone past a million times as a kid – it’s one of the first things you see when you drive into downtown Pittsburgh from the airport – but […]