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Glossary Terms
The world of Rich Context is interdisciplinary in nature, and some of the disciplines involved tend to use some mutually unintelligible definitions for specialized terms. For example...
When social science researchers mention "microdata" or "micro-data" they are generally talking about confidential data, possibly about individuals or individual businesses as opposed to talking about "open data" that is open to the public, or aggregate statistics about an economy.
When people working in computer science mention microdata they are generally talking about machine readable data embedded in HTML documents, in other words metadata.
Of course, when computer science people talk with social science people about leveraging metadata and how microdata fits into that, much confusion ensues.