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   Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:49:50 JST Brewster Kahle

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   Did you know that the term 'Metadata' was coined by Bill Dunn and Mitch Kapor in the mid-1980's?

   Bill Dunn said "metadata is more important than the data itself."

   Yup.

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     Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:49:51 JST Brewster Kahle

     "...uphold libraries’ rights and interests to
     use, re-use, adapt, aggregate, and share metadata
     that describes library collections to serve the public interest, without restriction or limitation."
     --Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries

     https://icolc.net/statements/joint-statement-metadata-rights-libraries

     Bet you did not think locking down metadata was a problem. Now you do. Open it up, and keep it open!

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.