Metadata / Music metaphors
Published by Jonathan September 20th, 2006 in LibrarianshipDaniel at OneBigLibrary.net provides us with some amusing metaphors comparing metadata types to music. Hilarious. MARC == western tonal ? RDF == twelve tone ?
Read it for yourself: Troll baiting with poorly thought out metadata metaphors
I’m wondering where Frank Zappa would fit into this.
Frank Zappa = FRBR/MARC21/AACRII/RDA with a side of folksonomy. All the rules in the known world, no matter how mutually contradictory, and a dash of awareness of when to ignore them.