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Data about a piece of data. Examples include

; The FileAllocationTable of a [FAT] FileSystem : describes the on-disk distribution of the data that makes up each file.
; %%% The journal in a Journalling [FileSystem] : 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 DublinCore 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 list is endless. Even this page you're reading is MetaData, it is a description of MetaData.

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