metacrap

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English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ crap. The "metadata" sense was coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2001.[1]

Noun

metacrap (uncountable)

  1. (social sciences, derogatory) Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.
    • 1998, John Haiman, Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, page 118:
      In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form” of a work; what it seems to be is different from what it means.
    • 2011, Joyce Cho and Višnja Rogošic, "Burning the Rules, PAJ: Journal of Performance and Art, Volume 33, Number 2, May 2011:
      Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.
    • 2013, Larry Lefkowitz, The Critic, The Assistant Critic, and Victoria, page 157:
      In this vein, amusing to hear (the first time) was Lieberman’s recounting how, at an international conference on language, Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst and philosopher, gave a presentation on “the linguistic nature of psychological symptomatology” (“the kind of highfalutin metacrap you like, Kunzman,” Lieberman later commented).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:metacrap.
  2. (Internet, derogatory) Low-quality or unreliable metadata.
    • 2004, Christian Crumlish, The Power of Many, page 246:
      People who refer to the metacrap argument are generally advocating “letting the software sort it out” instead of asking people to explicitly tag everything before making any contribution.
    • 2008, Duncan Grey, Getting the Buggers to Find Out: Information Skills and Learning How to Learn, page 175:
      More formally we can say that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.
    • 2009, Hongwei Zhu, Harris Wu, “Sloppy Tags and Metacrap?: Quality of User Contributed Tags in Collaborative Social Tagging Systems”, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009, page 1:
      The contributors may have certain bias and personal agenda (e.g., to allure visitors to a resource) in entering tags not relevant to the resources at all, thus the tags may be a collection of “metacrap” (Doctorow 2001).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:metacrap.

References

  1. ^ Jane Greenberg, "Big Metadata, Smart Metadata, and Metadata Capital: Toward Greater Synergy Between Data Science and Metadata", Journal of Data and Information Science, Volume 2, Number 3, page 25