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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Saturday, November 29, 2003 3:56:45 pm | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
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-Data about data.
+Data about a piece of
data. Examples include
-For example, a
FileAllocationTable is
MetaData.
The '
control'
file in a [DebianLinux
] .[Deb
] is MetaData
.
+; The
FileAllocationTable of a [FAT] FileSystem : describes the on-disk distribution of the data that makes up each file.
+; %%% The journal in a [JournaledFileSystem|JournaledFileSystems] : describes the actions to be taken upon the
MetaData of a file in the FileSystem it resides on
.
+; %%%
The control file in a [Deb
] [Package] for DebianLinux : specifies the content of the package and its relation to other packages
.
+; %%% Bibliographic records (such as per the
[MARC
] and Dublin Core standards) : contain information like the Title, Author, Date, etc of documents in a database in order to ease look-up
.
+; %%% [APT] and Yum repository headers : Contains Information about the packages, and dependencies that it requires to install
-The Journal in a [JournaledFileSystem|JournaledFileSystems]
is MetaData and
it is though the cunning using of this MetaData that such FileSystems get their edge.
-
-In the field of Information Retrieval, MetaData refers to data about
a document. For example, the Title, Author, Date, etc are all MetaData about the actual document. Bibliographic records help look-up based on MetaData. Standards for this kind
of MetaData include [MARC] and Dublin Core
.
+The list is endless. Even this page you're reading
is MetaData,
it is a description
of MetaData.
