Concept information
Preferred term
metadata
Definition
- Metadata is data about data, or structured information that describes an information resource, used to facilitate the understanding, characteristics, use, and management of data. In the context of this thesaurus, metadata refers not just to schemas for metadata implementation but also techniques related to knowledge organization that use metadata.
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- meta data
Source
- Caragea, Cornelia, Vasant Honavar, Peter Boncz, Peter Boncz, Per-Åke Larson, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Gonzalo Navarro, et al. 2009. “Multimedia Metadata.” In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1825–29. Boston, MA: Springer US.
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URI
http://purl.org/knot/thesaurus/metadata
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