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Subject: FW: [wsdm][UPlat] Metadata Definition from Dictionary.com
Forwarding for Andreas, he took an action item to send this during our conf call. William -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Dharmawan [mailto:andreas@westbridgetech.com] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:16 AM To: 'Zulah Eckert'; 'Bryan Murray'; 'Ellen Stokes'; 'Heather Kreger'; 'Igor Sedukhin'; 'John DeCarlo'; 'William Vambenepe' Subject: [wsdm][UPlat] Metadata Definition from Dictionary.com meta-data <data> /me't*-day`t*/, or combinations of /may'-/ or (Commonwealth) /mee'-/; /-dah`t*/ (Or "meta data") Data about data. In data processing, meta-data is definitional data that provides information about or documentation of other data managed within an application or environment. For example, meta-data would document data about data elements or attributes, (name, size, data type, etc) and data about records or data structures (length, fields, columns, etc) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.). Meta-data may include descriptive information about the context, quality and condition, or characteristics of the data.
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