How is the All Music Guide a "metadata" database?

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Isn't it just a database? It is not "data that describes other data"
- its just data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_music_guide

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 7 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Metadata is a harsh mistress. In theory, you can call the ingredients section on a box of crackers "metadata". That being said, every database could be considered metadata.

Information science has fuzzy logic, at best.

Anyway, I think good ol'Wikipedia's point is that AllMusic's pages provide something similar to a catalog record of individual bands, artists, etc. with linking features, similar to a library's online catalog.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 7 September 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

music cds contain data

― Wrinklepossum's Awesome Blossom (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 7 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

apparently everything is data:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19125645.800-you-are-made-of-spacetime.html

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 7 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

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