Metadata definition

Metadata includes all information created manually or automatically to provide meaning or context to other data.

Metadata means textual and other data associated with the Licensed Titles and/or Licensed Content that describes the creation, content, and context of each part of the Licensed Titles or Licensed Content, such as the name of the Publisher, the name of the copyright owner, subject matter, the date of publication, the location of the digital file, and in relation to Licensed Content, additionally the name of the contributing author (or authors) and other authors.

Metadata means data collected on any activity of a natural or legal person for the purposes of the provision of a data sharing service, including the date , time and geolocation data, duration of activity, connections to other natural or legal persons established by the person who uses the service;

Examples of Metadata in a sentence

• Metadata: means information that provides meaning and context to other data being collected; including, but not limited to: date and time records and purpose of creation Metadata that have been stripped of all direct and indirect identifiers are not considered Personally Identifiable Information.

• Metadata author (not mandatory, cardinality: 1) This element identifies the author of this metadata document.

• Under this Agreement, Label commits to EBR Label the delivery of digital copies of Master Files and Metadata.

• Since the actual ingestion of the material supplied by Content Providers into EAGLE will be implemented by the EAGLE aggregation infrastructure, these tables will be the basis for the final mapping from the providers’ data sets to the EAGLE Aggregator Metadata Schema (the one used internally by the aggregator in the EAGLE server).

• Metadata definition for the first set of data is normally a straightforward task, but metadata definition for the second one usually need careful scholarly consideration, since the information to be recorded is often not so obvious and is often open to interpretation.

More Definitions of Metadata

Metadata means data that describes or gives information about other data.

Metadata means a structured description of the contents of the data facilitating the discovery and use of this data;

Metadata means data describing the context, content, and structure of records and their management through time.

Metadata means data about data;

Metadata means information, generally not visible when an electronic document is printed, describing the history, tracking, or management of the electronic document, including information about data in the electronic document that describes how, when, and by whom the data is collected, created, accessed, or modified and how it is formatted.

Metadata means information describing spatial data sets and spatial data services and making it possible to discover, inventory and use them;

Metadata means and refers to information about information or data about data, and includes without limitation (i) information embedded in or associated with a native file that is not ordinarily viewable or printable from the application that generated, edited, or modified such native file which describes the characteristics, origins, usage and/or validity of the electronic file and/or (ii) information generated automatically by the operation of a computer or other information technology system when a native file is created, modified, transmitted, deleted or otherwise manipulated by a user of such system.