Resource description refers to defining concepts and relationships that represent the content and structure of some subject matter (ontology) or a database (schema) in a formal language.

In the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), a repository is a means of exposing metadata to harvesters.

Do your programs only compute pure functions of data, or do they also perform effects such as dynamically reading input, writing output, transitioning database state, making network requests, etc.

Shared datasets often have column/field names that are ambiguous in their meaning, or contain identical/related concepts with different names, hindering reuse.