In the emerging economy there is a new infrastructure, based on the internet, that is causing us to scrutinies most of our assumptions about the business. As a skin of networks - growing in ubiquity, robustness, bandwidth, and function - covers the skin of the planet, new models of how wealth is created are emerging.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

What is metadata?

The main distinction is that metadata is exclusive to electronic information. In computer terminology, the prefix ‘meta’ is commonly used to mean ‘about’, so a metalanguage is a language used to describe other languages, and metadata is data to describe other data.

It can be created for nay data or information resource and is routinely used to describe or provide functional information for all types of digital data.

Metadata is of paramount importance for persons, organizations and endeavors of every dimension that are increasingly turning to the World Wide Web.

It facilitates discovery of relevant information, helps in organizing electronic resources, facilitates interoperability and legacy, resource integration, provide digital identification and support archiving and preservation.

Metadata is used in traditional database management system such as relational database systems to store information on the size, structure, location, modification dates and number of tables in the database system.
What is metadata?

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