# Metadata Drift

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

Record: `lexicon:metadata-drift`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-metadata-drift

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Manifest Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/manifest-drift.md) and before [Payload Verbosity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/payload-verbosity.md).

## Category

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)

## In tension with

- [Self-Describing Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/self-describing-architecture.md)
- [Self-Describing Architecture / Metadata Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/metadata-drift-self-describing-architecture.md)

## Linked from

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)