Noun

metadata (uncountable)

  1. Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
    Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay the words out on the screen.

Related terms

  • metainformation

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Fri Aug 20 03:18:58 2010

Metadata is loosely defined as data about data. Metadata is a concept that applies mainly to electronically archived or presented data and is used to describe the a) definition, b) structure and c) administration of data files with all contents in context to ease the use of the captured and archived data for further use. For example, a web page may include metadata specifying what language it's written in, what tools were used to create it, where to go for more on the subject and so on.

Metadata definition

Metadata is defined as data providing information about one or more other pieces of data, such as:

  • means of creation of the data
  • purpose of the data,
  • time and date of creation,
  • creator or author of data,
  • placement on a network (electronic form) where the data was created,
  • what standards used
  • etc.

For example: A digital image may include metadata that describes how large the picture is, the color depth, the image resolution, when the image was created, and other data. A text document's metadata may contain information about how long the document is, who the author is, when the document was written, and a short summary of the document.

Metadata is data. As such, metadata can be stored and managed in a database, often called a registry or repository. However, it is impossible to identify metadata just by looking at it. We don't know when data is metadata or just data.

From Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License
Fri Sep 3 15:32:45 2010

Is there a photo printing service that will print metadata on the back?
Q. I want to print my favorite digital photos for backup, and archiving. Decades later a picture is still a picture, regardless of what has happened in storage technology and file formats. Unfortunately you lose the tags, captions, dates, etc stored in the file's metadata. Is there a photo printing service that will print this data on the back?
Asked by Ian J - Mon Jun 15 21:52:23 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. most good processors can and will print on the back of a photo. models do this all the time to record stats, contact info etc.
Answered by D L - Mon Jun 15 22:10:20 2009

How do I find out where exactly the google earth images come from (metadata, and where is the data available)?
Q. Google Earth recently added an amazing set of high resolution images to their interface. I would like to find the metadata for these images (scene id, sensor, date of acquisition, etc.) as well as where I might find the original data sets. Any help would be appreciated.
Asked by mayaboy - Fri Sep 1 17:35:41 2006 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The high resolution data on Google Earth mostly comes from the QuickBird satellite which is owned by a company called Digital Globe. You can view their catalogue here: Other high resolution images on GE are provided by local aerial photography companies. You can get an idea of who is behind the data by looking at the copyright statement that is located at the base of the viewer.
Answered by jjstarj - Thu Sep 7 11:35:43 2006

how to batch copy an image's metadata from one field to another?
Q. i'd like to batch process a bunch of images, copying the iptc description to the iptc title field in the image's meta data. anyone know of a program that does this easily? thanks.
Asked by cx_luvr - Tue Dec 29 18:43:34 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. ExifTool is a command line tool which allows you to view and modify image headers. It's helpful if you know how to write command line batch files to use this. There are GUI frontends for ExifTool.
Answered by qrk - Tue Dec 29 21:46:40 2009

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