metadata.

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Kathleen Miller wrote:

> First in Dow Jones 11/06/1987
> First in New York Times -  April 10, 1983 - wedding announcement for daughter
> of Joseph A. MacDonald, then (maybe still) president of Metadata. The first
> time it is used as a word in its own right in the Times is 1999.

The earliest occurrence of _metadata_ on Nexis is in Computerworld, Aug.
2, 1982.  The earliest example I can readily find, period, is in the
proceedings of the 11th American meeting of the Institute of Management
Sciences (1970).

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