"data about data," it provides information about resources, such as title, author, location, and date of creation of the information being described, like a book or a website, for example View records related to this term
Refers to information that describes data or databases To be able to compare information about one set of data or database with another, metadata should be developed to a common standard (i e standard set of fields and criteria for completing fields)
{i} data about data, information known that makes it easy to access and use the data (e.g.: library catalog card, which includes information about the nature and location of a book); (Computers) descriptive information about data and documents (such as origin, size, formatting or different characteristics of a data)
data about data; "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications"
Metadata describes the attributes of an information bearing object (IBO) - document, data set, database, image, artifact, collection, etc ; metadata acts as a surrogate representation of the IBO A metadata record can include representations of the content, context, structure, quality, provenance, condition, and other characteristics of an IBO for the purposes of representing the IBO to a potential user - for discovery, evaluation for fitness for use, access, transfer, and citation See also, Meta-information Examples of metadata format are the MARC format used by the library community Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata developed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee Directory Interchange Format (DIF) used by NASA's Global Change Master Directory Government Information Locator Service (GILS), and Dublin Core set of attributes for electronic resources developed with the lead of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) [LH]
Data about data That is, given an array, we must also inform DX about the number of items in the array, the type (float, integer, byte, and so on) of the array elements, and other information This information is metadata about the data items in the array Metadata is not a keyword in DX, but is a widely understood term within computer science See also data-driven, self-describing
Information about a file, such as permissions, in contrast to the actual data in the file
information that describes what is contained in large computer databases, for example who wrote the information, what it is for, and in what form it is stored
In general, "data about data;" functionally, "structured data about data " Information about an information resource In the case of Dublin Core, information that expresses the intellectual content, intellectual property and/or instantiation characteristics of an information resource See Section 1 1 of this guide
Metadata is a component of data which describes the data It is "data about data " Metadata describes the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data Without proper documentation a data set is incomplete
Information about data; more specifically, information about the meaning of other data
Special tagged fields in a document that provide information about the document to search engines and other computer applications Metadata will not display in the main window of a graphical browser The search engine at the NRC Website recognizes several operators for searching metadata fields: <CONTAINS>, <STARTS>, <ENDS>, <MATCHES>, and = These operators force the search to find the exact search query (they disable stemming and proximity searching and force the search to be sensitive to the case of the search query) The HTML title is the only metadata field supported at the NRC Website
Metadata refers to the use of a structured set of elements to describe an information resource and its intellectual property rights The elements used should assist in the identification, location and retrieval of information resources by end-users The use of metadata should facilitate the management of Content by persons assigned to roles that have responsibility for MurdochNet Content
Metadata is data about data Metadata is commonly used to identify information that describes a Web asset, most typically an HTML file Metadata that describes an HTML file might include the name of the author, the language the file is written in, the source of the file, the keywords that describe the file, and the audience the content is targeted for
A definition or description of data, often described as data about data For example, the data of a newspaper story is the headline and the story, whereas the metadata describes who wrote it, when and where it was published, and what section of the newspaper it appears in Metadata can help us determine who content is for and where, how, and when it should appear
Data about the data, that is, the description of the data resources, its characteristics, location, usage, and so on Metadata is used to identify, describe, and define user data
Information that refers to one or more other pieces of information that can exist as separate physical forms In short, data about data Any type of description can be considered metadata Examples include library catalog information, encoded text file headers, and driver's license data In the information technology world the term is often used to indicate data which refers to digital resources available across a network