Bob will be presenting a a MSRM paper. There will be a workshop on metadata late in the year sponsored by Goddard and Fort Meade. Also a metadata strawman will be presented some time this summer sponsored by Oak Ridge. One of the reasons for these workshops is to attempt to establish some common terminology. Currently there are as many languages describing metadata as there are groups wanting to make use of metadata.
Examples are mass storage, imaging, and scientists wanting keywords for searching data.
The API includes the ability to do a backup within a data base. Basically it is a client server backup. This document specifies incremental backups and would allow the client to incrementally backup a single large file. Bob suspects the document will be massaged and come back much changed. Bob was concerned because the terminology was different from our terminology.