SSA Ontology

Metadata Erasure

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SSA concept · Published

Metadata Erasure

Scope note: When the System Keeps the Info, Not the Author

The stripping of origin, context, or authorship from digital knowledge—especially when used to feed AI or system development without consent.

Concept record

Canonical URI

https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/metadata-erasure/

Related concepts

No explicit related concepts in v0.1.

Status and licence

Published in SSA Ontology v0.1.0. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable representation

The structured record below is also embedded in this page as JSON-LD.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/metadata-erasure/",
  "name": "Metadata Erasure",
  "description": "The stripping of origin, context, or authorship from digital knowledge—especially when used to feed AI or system development without consent.",
  "termCode": "metadata-erasure",
  "inDefinedTermSet": [
    {
      "@id": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/scheme/digital-sovereignty/",
      "name": "Glossary Of Digital Sovereignty"
    }
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Sarah Ailish McLoughlin"
  },
  "url": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/metadata-erasure/",
  "sameAs": "https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/metadata-erasure/"
}

Provenance

This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-digital-sovereignty/

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