This is way nerdy stuff - significant way nerdy stuff

November 8, 2004 Apple's forthcoming Tiger operating system offers a compelling advantage. The following are Apple's words, but we concur and we think the advent of this system at this point in time is a landmark. Tiger will enable unmitigated access to meta-data for all. This access will enable the development of data-mining tools that will enable the world to mine its digital assets more effectively. If you were waiting for Apple to follow up the iPod, a product that established its presence in the entertainment industry, then this is it. This is devilishly clever! Meta-data is, succinctly stated, data about data. It provides a description about the data contained in a file such as (but not limited to) its height, width, size, creator, copyright holder, title, editor, created date, and last modification date. In practice, there is so much data that can be considered meta-data that these descriptions usually are generalized as a dictionary of descriptive attributes indexed by keys. You can think of it as the "what, when, and who" of a piece of data.

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