What Are Metadata Resources?

• Metadata resources define the structure requirements, constraints, and capabilities of other resources and qualities
• Resource identification qualities relate resources to identification-schema metadata
• Classification qualities relate resources to resource metadata resources
• Classification enables processing (e.g. modeling, management)
• Like all other resources, metadata resources can evolve and change dynamically, at "run-time"
• Like all other resources, metadata resource evolution and behavior are entitlement-based
• Resources can have multiple classifications (e.g. "multiple inheritance")
• Resource classifications can change dynamically, at run-time, according to entitlement