Metadata

product (Note: One unhyphenated word with initial capital;

contrast meta data) A word coined by Jack E. Myers to

represent current and future lines of products implementing

the concepts of his MetaModel, and also to designate his

company The Metadata Company that would develop and market

those products.

A data and publication search performed when Myers coined the

term, early in the summer of 1969, did not discover any use

either of the word "metadata" or "meta data". Myers used the

term in a 1973 product brochure and it is an Incontestable

registered U.S. Trademark.

(1997-04-06)