URC == Metadata == Data

• What's the difference between a description OF a thing and the thing ITSELF?
• What is "About" about?
• Metadata - the Never-Ending Story. Metadata or Data?
  • A Collection of Alternative Representations
  • A Collection of Component Parts
  • A Collection of Replicas
  • A Collection of Abstracts
  • A Table of Contents
  • Type, size, format of the data
• How distantly related, and still in the family?
• Do we avoid these questions or face them HEAD on?