bn:00054548n
Noun Concept
Categories: Records management, Knowledge representation, Articles with short description, Technical communication, Library cataloging and classification
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metadata  File description  File descriptions  image metadata  meta-content
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Data about data WordNet 3.0
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computers
computing
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Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. Wikipedia
Structured information that describes, explains, locates, and otherwise makes it easier to retrieve and use a data resource. OmegaWiki
Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label. Wiktionary
Data that describes data. Wiktionary (translation)
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A library catalog is metadata because it describes publications WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen. Wiktionary