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 now is computers – search engines – which are much more literal than humans; they do not do nuance at all well.
Here’s a list of all the things that picture is – or at least all the ones I can think of in 5 minutes:
- digital image – and not just any digital image, it’s an iPhone polaroid, which is a mimicking of an old technology with a new
- button on a pop machine
- picture of an American Indian, or Native American
- Chief
- brand name of soda pop – carbonated beverage
- racist
- misspelled
Button to select red pop, on the 7UP machine, 8th floor landing
