Category theory, which is where the convention of using a "co-" prefix to refer to the "arrow-flipped" dual of a category comes from, predates CODATA by nearly

Category theory, which is where the convention of using a "co-" prefix to refer to the "arrow-flipped" dual of a category comes from, predates CODATA by nearly twenty years. Maybe the CODATA folks shouldn't have presumed that they were the category-theoretic dual of data?