Lexicon

Metadata

Kind: artifact

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:metadata

Canonical: Lexicon

Descriptive data about a system's structure, capabilities, or content, consumed to drive behavior.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Cost and before Discovery.

Category

  • Core Vocabulary

Required by

  • Runtime Discovery
  • Self-Describing Architecture
  • Self-Describing API

Linked from

  • Runtime Discovery / Dynamic Binding
  • Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
  • Infrastructure Concerns