Ways to List Meta Data
The repository engine stores
The following table lists and organizes the types of the bookseller's object model. The left column contains convenient groupings of like information, and the right column (Data) contains the information itself. The Data column describes particular classes (such as Book and Person) and particular relationship types (such as Authorship and Publication). The Kind of Data column thus reveals a portion of the object model for storing classes and relationship types.
The following table enlarges the preceding table to include properties.
In the preceding table, the information in the Data column is equivalent to the information in the following figure. The following figure shows typical data about a typical object model, the bookseller's object model.