Look up: metadata

1. Metadata
   (product) (Note: One unhyphenated word with initial capital; contrast meta data) A word coined by Jack E. Myers to represent current and future lines of products implementing the concepts of his MetaModel, and also to designate his company The Metadata Company that would develop and market those pro...
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2. Metadata
   (1) Information about a data set which is provided by the data supplier or the generating algorithm and which provides a description of the content, format, and utility of the data set. Metadata provide criteria which may be used to select data for a particular scientific investigation. (2) Informat...
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3. metadata
   data that describes characteristics of a document. Metadata is essentially a catalogue record, providing (a) access points by which records of documents can be sorted or retrieved and (b) descriptive information, by which the relevance of a document can be assessed without consulting it in full. Pre...
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4. Metadata
   Information about data, details ...
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5. Metadata
   Graphical or textual information about the content, quality, condition, origins and characteristics of data.
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6. Metadata
   Data associated with documents to provide information on their contents, context and use.
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7. Metadata
   (In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) Metadata is simply data about data (e.g. data definition, data type, using systems etc.). Stored in a data dictionary & repository, metadata insulates the data warehouse from changes in the schema of operational systems.
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8. Metadata
   A definition or description of data, in effect 'data about data'. Metadata is commonly used in content management systems and data warehouses, with tags or descriptors added to information to help with its subsequent retrieval.
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9. Metadata
   Data that is used to describe other data. Data definitions are sometimes referred to as metadata. Examples of metadata include schema, table, index, view and column definitions.
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10. Metadata
    Information describing an information resource, sometimes referred to as data about data
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11. Metadata
    Data about data, or information known about the image in order to provide access to the image. Usually includes information about the intellectual content of the image, digital representation data, and security or rights management information.
    Found on http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%
    
    
12. metadata
    noun data about data; `a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications`
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13. Metadata
    is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information resource. The Dublin Core is an example of a standard. It was developed for libraries to be simple and concise. The current Dublin Core standard defines fifteen metadat...
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14. Metadata
    Data about data, or information known about the image in order to provide access to the image. Usually includes information about the intellectual content of the image, digital representation data, and security or rights management information
    Found on http://www.digitalexposure.ca/sub1.html
    
    
15. metadata
    The Explanation page contains information grouped according to two levels of detail: dataset and series levels. This type of information is often referred to as metadata. The most common definition of `metadata` is `data about data`. In statistical terms, it provides information about statistical d...
    Found on http://www.oenb.at/dictionary/termini.js
    
    
16. Metadata
    A description, usually in digital form and conforming to a well defined template, of a set of useful data. Also, an index composed of such descriptions. Analogous to a card in a library card catalogue system, a metadata description of a set of data might include an abstract of the data and the data'...
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17. METADATA
    Data About Data
    Found on http://www.met.police.uk/foi/glossary.ht
    
    
18. Metadata
    The term `metadata` is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts (types). Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata