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5 AristotlePagaltzis 1 Data about a piece of data. Examples include
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5 AristotlePagaltzis 3 ; The FileAllocationTable of a [FAT] FileSystem : describes the on-disk distribution of the data that makes up each file.
8 CraigBox 4 ; %%% The journal in a Journalling [FileSystem] : describes the actions to be taken upon the MetaData of a file in the FileSystem it resides on.
5 AristotlePagaltzis 5 ; %%% The control file in a [Deb] [Package] for DebianLinux : specifies the content of the package and its relation to other packages.
7 JohnMcPherson 6 ; %%% Bibliographic records (such as per the [MARC] and DublinCore standards) : contain information like the Title, Author, Date, etc of documents in a database in order to ease look-up.
6 AlastairPorter 7 ; %%% [APT] and Yum repository headers : Contains Information about the packages, and dependencies that it requires to install
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5 AristotlePagaltzis 9 The list is endless. Even this page you're reading is MetaData, it is a description of MetaData.