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# Schematizing
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/schematizing/
- Published: 2004-06-09T14:44:31.000Z
- Updated: 2004-06-09T14:44:31.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

*Schematize* is cropping up in various places. Jim Gray spoke about *schematized storage* at OCLC recently \[[ppt](https://www.oclc.org/research/dss/ppt/dss%5Fgray.ppt?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]. He was talking about associating metadata with data. Here is Steve Gillmor:

> HailStorm’s notion of a massive in-memory cloud of XML data and metadata was doomed, not by the daunting mechanics of schematizing a broad set of generic business processes or assembling a mesh network of server clusters, but by the fears of many that Microsoft would commandeer personal information to achieve network domination, as it once seized the desktop. \[[Gmail a Gentler HailStorm?](https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1607870,00.asp?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

Prompted by this, I have been characterizing metadata as *schematized statements about resources* \[[ppt](https://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/nisometadata.ppt?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]. Not sure if it quite trips off the tongue!