Lexicon

Metadata Drift

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: lexicon:metadata-drift

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which self-describing metadata drifts out of sync with the actual system.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Manifest Drift and before Payload Verbosity.

Category

  • Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems

In tension with

  • Self-Describing Architecture
  • Self-Describing Architecture / Metadata Drift

Linked from

  • Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
  • The resolutions