Associations to the word «Metadata»

Wiktionary

METADATA, noun. Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
METADATA REGISTRIES, noun. Plural of metadata registry
METADATA REGISTRY, noun. (metadata) A central location in an organization where metadata definitions are stored and maintained in a controlled method.

Dictionary definition

METADATA, noun. Data about data; "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope