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Business Definition for: Metadata
- essential information on a document or Web page, such as publication date, author, keywords, title, and summary. This information is used by search engines to find relevant Web sites when a user requests a search.
When designing metadata, there are several rules to keep in mind. Always remember the type of person who will be looking for the contentâ€"how would they like the content classified? Only collect metadata that is genuinely usefulâ€"someone has to fill in all the metadata, and if you ask for too much, it will slow down the publishing process and make it more expensive. Make sure that all essential information is collectedâ€"if copyright information is needed, make certain that copyright is part of the metadata list. Check that people are not abusing metadataâ€"some will put popular keywords in their metadata just to increase the chance of their documents coming up in a search, whether relevant or not. Remember that metadata should be strongly linked with advanced searchâ€"the metadata forms the parameters for refining an advanced search.
- See also Meta-tag
Wiktionary Definition for: Metadata
- Information about other information, normally for the purpose of classification.
Additional Resources
- Creating Quality Metadata for Your Web Site
- Metadata on a Web site includes such items as classification how content is organized by subject matter, date of publication, keywords, headings, summary, author name, and copyright. You need to identify metadata on your Web site to ensure that:every document is properly classified so it can be found quicklyall relevant...
- Articles 2007-07-05
- Danger Ahead! Hurtling Down the Metadata Mine
- Metadata are simply or not so simply data about data. A library's card catalog is metadata about books in the collection -- for any one book you can find out the name of the author, year it was published, and, perhaps most important, where in the library the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Quality in Africa: in the second of a 3-part series, Sina Ayanlade explores the question of data quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and the roles of metadata and the Global Positioning System.
- Metadata--data about data--metadata--are very important. Metadata allows us to understand the origin of the data, its geometric characteristics, its attributes, and what type of cartographic, digital image processing, or modeling has already been app Metadata--data about data--metadata--are very important. Metadata allows us to understand the...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Synchronized MPEG-7 Metadata Broadcasting Over DVB Networks in an MHP Application Framework
- As MPEG-7 gets extended, DVB systems find the need to transport metadata over MPEG-2. This paper gives a view of a real implementation in an MHP application framework of the amendment ISO/IEC 13818-1:2000/Final Draft Amendment FDAM 1, which standardizes the carriage of MPEG-7 metadata over MPEG-2. The paper focuses mainly...
- White papers 2003-08-14
- Instance-Based Learning and Information Extraction for the Generation of Metadata
- Knowledge Management recently has become popular in enterprises hoping to achieve a competitive advantage. Describing information by metadata allows for performing detailed queries uniformly over information items from different information sources and enables goal-directed search and automatic provision of relevant information. As the manual acquisition of metadata is very costly,...
- White papers 2003-07-02
- Clear Communication: The Foundation for Successful Business Metadata Projects
- In my last column, we discussed the two types of metadata: technical and business. The fact that there are two metadata types may be old news to some of you, but plenty of people still succumb to the classic metadata trap of not really understanding what kind of metadata the...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Applying Metadata Technology in TV Production
- This paper begins by analyzing the tasks and roles within the broadcast industry and reviews the metadata generated and used at each stage in the broadcast workflow. This paper takes a pragmatic look at the generation and use of metadata within the broadcast field. The paper has used exposure to...
- White papers 2003-08-14
- Metadata in TV Production: Associating the TV Production Process With Relevant Technologies
- At each step in the production process the metadata to be collected and used has different characteristics. Possible metadata processing is listed for the major steps in TV production with an indication of the benefits and overheads at each point. Some of the metadata formats that are suitable and optimized...
- White papers 2002-06-28
- Metadata Management for Enterprise Applications
- Any requirement for access to Enterprise Application data will require an understanding of the data structures. Saphir is a simple but powerful Windows-based tool that makes the exploration and utilisation of Enterprise Application metadata practical. This paper describes why metadata management is an issue, why it is important to manage...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Share the wealth: metadata streamlines public TV content systems.(Technology)
- This month, public TV and radio stations will launch a new metadata dictionary, making it easier for them to share, find and broadcast content. Metadata, a digital version of the barcode, can be attached to a video file and accessed at the click of ...
- Research articles 2004-08-30
- Metadata Standards Leaders IEEE and DCMI Collaborate to Design Future Metadata Architecture for Web-based Learning, Education and Training
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PISCATAWAY, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 8, 2000 Representatives of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee Learning Objects Metadata (LTSC-LOM) Working Group and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative DCMI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the commitment to develop mutual interoperable metadata for technology-supported learning, education and...
- Research articles 2000-12-09
- Nist Hosts Metadata Committees - National Institute of Standards and Technology - Brief Article
- NIST recently hosted the meeting of two organizations with a focus on metadata descriptions and registries. The ANSI NCITS L8 Metadata Committee had a Special Interest Group and Plenary meeting to discuss progress in standardizing descriptions for data elements and other forms of metadata. Metadata is the data that defines...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- Extracting Value From Your Metadata With MXF and XML
- Within the context of modern media content production and distribution, the fundamental requirements for automated Metadata systems have become well understood and the benefits that the integrated flow of Metadata can bring to the production and distribution chains are now obvious. This paper focuses on design approaches that can leverage...
- White papers 2003-08-14
- Metadata Efficiency in Versioning File Systems
- This paper examines two space-efficient metadata structures for versioning file systems and describes their integration into the Comprehensive Versioning File System CVFS, which keeps all versions of all files. Journal-based metadata encodes each metadata version into a single journal entry; CVFS uses this structure for inodes and indirect blocks, reducing...
- White papers 2003-09-18
- Government: e-GMS (e-Government Metadata Standard) Government
- Metadata is information about information, but more usually it is a selection of useful information about a document, usually electronic, within that document itself. This report focuses on the e-GMS, which means the electronic Government Metadata Standard - the description of how and where metadata must be applied. The report...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Business Objects and Prism Solutions Partner for Seamless Integration of a Single Metadata Warehouse; Partnership Aimed at Providing Effective Data Warehouse Access and Rapid Implementation by Allowing Users to Easily Link and Share Metadata
- SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 12, 1996--Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing OLAP tools, today announced that it will enhance its partnership with Prism Solutions, Inc. by delivering an integrated warehouse metadata solution that provides a link between BusinessObjects and metadata within...
- Research articles 1996-06-12
- Documenting and finding geospatial data: metadata developments are helping to describe growing amounts of spatial information and data. They also provide a more comprehensive solution with respect to documentation.
- As well as ensuring the organisation of data management, metadata primarily help a wide public to locate geospatial information and supports the exchange of geodata among users. In other words, a metadata catalogue enables users to google spatial data according to specific requirements. Many organisations aim...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- "Metadata Activities Signal Broader Changes to the Government Enterprise" by IDC.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 May 2006-MarketResearch.com: "Metadata Activities Signal Broader Changes to the Government Enterprise" by IDCC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09052006 This IDC Flash analyzes how government metadata- and information-sharing projects are having a major impact on the way data flows between...
- Research articles 2006-05-10
- Metadata Council Forms to Launch Standards Initiative; Industry Leaders Organize Coalition of Vendors and End Users to Define Metadata Standards
- PHOENIX--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 10, 1995--Six leading industry vendors, including Arbor Software, Business Objects, Cognos, Evolutionary Technologies International, Platinum Technology, and Texas Instruments Software, today launched a major new initiative for defining specifications for the access and interchange of metadata between different types and classes of enterprise data management tools.Metadata is the...
- Research articles 1995-10-10
- Nirvana Releases SRB(R) 2007, a Packaged Data-Sharing Solution With Advanced Metadata and ILM Capabilities
- Nirvana Storage, a division of General Atomics, today announced the availability of Storage Resource Broker® (SRB®) 2007. Enhanced features and functionality for SRB 2007 include: -- Authentication compatibility with Microsoft AD and LDAP -- More efficient authorizations for Access Control Lists ACLs -- All-new Metadata Scheme...
- Research articles 2007-03-06
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