#metadata
Top Voted Definition for #metadata
Metadata is structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource. A resource can be anything - other data, a document, a person or a physical object.
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show_chart Other Definitions for #metadata
Data about data. Ambiguous as usd 4 2 fundamentally differnt concepts (types). Structurl metadata is abt design + specficatn of data structures + more properly called "data about containers of data"; descriptive metadata, on other hand, about individual instances of application data, d data content. Useful description would be "data about data content" or "content about content"
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