Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message...

Geospatial metadata (also geographic metadata) is a type of metadata applicable to geographic data and information. Such objects may be stored in a geographic...

The SAML metadata standard belongs to the family of XML-based standards known as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) published by OASIS in 2005...

A metadata registry is a central location in an organization where metadata definitions are stored and maintained in a controlled method. A metadata repository...

A metadata repository is a database created to store metadata. Metadata is information about the structures that contain the actual data. Metadata is often...

A metadata standard is a requirement which is intended to establish a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data, to ensure correct and...

Preservation metadata is item level information that describes the context and structure of a digital object. It provides background details pertaining...

Metadata is the name of a US corporation and a registered trademark in the United States. Though the term "metadata" has a common generic use in information...

A metadata engine collects, stores and analyzes information about data and metadata (data about data) in use within a knowledge domain. It virtualizes...

The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an ISO standard, originally created by Adobe Systems Inc., for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized...

Business metadata is data that adds business context to other data. It provides information authored by business people and/or used by business people...

Metadata management involves managing metadata about other data, whereby this "other data" is generally referred to as content data. The term is used most...

information is known as metadata. It is stored in two locations: data dictionary tables (accessed via built-in views) and a metadata registry. Other relational...

bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...

Metadata publishing is the process of making metadata data elements available to external users, both people and machines using a formal review process...

Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), is a set of fifteen main metadata items for describing digital or physical resources. It was the first metadata standard...

Metadata, in the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), refers to certain data structures embedded within the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code that...

Given that metadata is a set of descriptive, structural and administrative data about a group of computer data (for example such as a database schema)...

In metadata, metadata discovery (also metadata harvesting) is the process of using automated tools to discover the semantics of a data element in data...

representing metadata. The DOI for a document remains fixed over the lifetime of the document, whereas its location and other metadata may change. Referring...

In metadata, dimension is a set of equivalent units of measure, where equivalence between two units of measure is determined by the existence of a quantity...

Metadata modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable...

often referred to as a code or id code. For instance the ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry standard defines a code as system of valid symbols that substitute...

In metadata, an indicator is a Boolean value that may contain only the values true or false. The definition of an Indicator must include the meaning of...

elements are tags used in HTML and XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page. They are part of a web page's head section. Multiple...

The XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard for exchanging metadata information via Extensible Markup Language (XML)...

Metadata removal tool or metadata scrubber is a type of privacy software built to protect the privacy of its users by removing potentially privacy-compromising...

Metadata controller (or MDC) is a storage area network (SAN) technology for managing file locking, space allocation and data access authorization. This...

Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata standard developed by and for the ecology discipline. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological...

Pages: Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange) for Service Endpoints W3C Working Draft of WS-MetadataExchange WS-MetadataExchange Specification...