Metadata basically means "data about data," but the concept itself and all its implications and domains it applies to make this explanation too simplistic. If we add that the term is mainly used when discussing information systems and resources and that it describes "the sum total of what one can say about any information object at any level of aggregation," we may begin to have a clearer image about this concept.
As Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland writes in her essay "Setting the Stage," metadata can be use to describe the three main features of an information object: content (intrinsic to the information object), context (extrinsic to the object) and structure. Let's take for example, a library, and the main feature of a library, its content (indeed, we will assume that, even id all information objects have these three features, many of them are stronger characterized through just one or two of the features. In our case, the context dimension of a library is unimportant, because it does not have a direct impact or correlation with the library's purpose. We are interested in what the library can provide for us- its content- and this is where metadata can help). The content of a library relates to all the books, articles, references, encyclopedias, etc., that is to all the components of the library's (as an information object) content. Metadata was thus developed and took the form of "indexes, abstracts and catalog records" in order to provide "intellectual and physical access" to the content. These are all forms of metadata used to explain content.
If we refer to context, then the example of museum and archival activities is best. Here, metadata takes the form of accession records and catalog records, following certain standards that have been developed throughout time. Following these examples of how metadata is used to describe content and context (further more, the article also brings forth the example of hoe metadata is used in describing an information object's structure), we can better relate to the definition of metadata as "data about data" and we can underline one of the main characteristics of metadata: description. Indeed, metadata describes, following certain rules and certain algorithms, a series of other data and information....
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