Explore common ways of describing and organizing data and metadata

[FlavioRizzolo]

The distinction between data and metadata has become blurrier over the past few years. With the ability to "translate" data from one data structure to another, some of the schema information (metadata) becomes data in the process, and vice versa, e.g. moving content between long and wide. In addition, whether a given piece of information can be viewed as data or metadata depends heavily in the context of use, e.g. locations, which are data in an address register, can become classification items, which are metadata in a classification management system. GSIM has historically treated data and metadata very differently, perhaps it's time to look now at the ways data and metadata are structured and put together in GSIM with the aim of using common constructs.

[InKyungChoi]

FYI - current way (except red part) how GSIM describes Data Structure and RM Structure

[FlavioRizzolo]

Some aspects have been tackled in issue #6. Others will be part of the backlog for the next revision.