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Metadata has turned into such a slimy word. Metadata isn't a type of data, it is a description of the relationship between two sets of data.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Metadata has turned into such a slimy word. Metadata isn't a type of data, it is a description of the relationship between two sets of data.
- ska 12y agoThat is far to narrow: metadata is literally "data about data", be it structural or descriptive. It's also worth remembering that this is not categorical, particularly for descriptive metadata. In one context a piece of information may be metadata, in another data.