A crowdsourced dictionary of metadata terms from all subject domains and all parts of metadata speech. Stands for Yet Another Metadata Zoo.
by thesalamander November 27, 2013
Consisting of, or limited to, the set of lowercase alphanumeric characters (letters and/or numbers) minus vowels and the letter 'l' (ell). Specifically, that set consists of: bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz0123456789.
To create durable, opaque, transcription-safe identifier strings, it helps to limit them to betanumeric characters and to add an NCDA check digit at the end.
by thesalamander April 17, 2021
Tedious text, such as a report or publication, that must be written to satisfy the conditions of a grant or contract. Derived from an acronym (SHit NObody wants to write, Read, or Fund).
by thesalamander August 18, 2013