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| | Metadata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Structural metadata is used to describe the stucture of computer systems such as tables, columns and indexes. | | | Fundamentally, then, metadata are "the data that describe the structure and workings of an organization’s use of information, and which describe the systems it uses to manage that information." To do a model of metadata is to do an "Enterprise model" of the information technology industry itself. | | | However, it is difficult if not impossible to precisely distinguish program "metadata" from general aspects of stored-program computing architecture; if the machine reads it and acts upon it, it is a computational instruction, and the prefix "meta" has little significance. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
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| | Metadata - LISWiki |
| | Other metadata allows filters to understand your site is suitable for all audiences; that may be important for users that have filtering software on their home machines. | | | Metadata is structured and encoded, not free text. | | | Since creating and using metadata is such an historical function of libraries and librarians it seems only natural that we should use it on our weblogs. |
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http://www.liswiki.com/wiki/Metadata
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| | Metadata is simply "data about data." Within the context of the computer industry, the most common domain of metadata is the file system. | | | The concept of a file's size as "immutable metadata" may be difficult to get your head around, particularly since we're so used to thinking of a file's size as something that is "derived from" the data itself, rather than simply "associated with" the data like the independent metadata described earlier. | | | To understand why, we'll examine the fundamentals of file metadata (or simply "metadata" henceforth), and explore the past, present, and future of metadata on the Mac, and in the computer industry as a whole. |
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/metadata.ars/1
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| | Java Metadata Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Java Metadata Interface (JMI) is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, access, storage, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Metadata_Interface
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| | BFS was one of the most advanced personal computer file systems of its time, with support for arbitrarily extensible file system metadata and efficient, real-time search queries. | | | File metadata is information associated with a file that is not logically part of the file's actual content (i.e., its data), although it may be physically. | | | File system metadata is file metadata that is stored as part of the file system data structures dedicated to each file. |
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/6
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| | DCMI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) |
| | One can assign a metadata value selected from a controlled vocabulary as the value of the element, and then qualify that element with the name or identifier of the scheme from which it is selected (the specifics of the encoding depends on the syntax being employed. | | | Metadata is descriptive information about an object or resource whether it be physical or electronic. | | | The basic idea is that qualifiers should improve the precision of a piece of metadata, but the metadata should still be useful even without that extra precision (that is, dropping the qualifier has 'dumbed-down' the metadata). |
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http://dublincore.org/resources/faq
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| | ongoing · On Search: Metadata |
| | Of course, if we could use computers to compute the metadata like Google does, that would be immensely cheaper than having employees do it. | | | Automatic Metadata · Obviously, there are some metadata items the computer will give you for free: a filename, created/modified dates, who created it, what kind of file (HTML, Excel, PowerPoint), how big it is. These can be handy for search applications and since they’re free, you should collect them and make them available. | | | When you decide in principle that metadata should be collected, it will develop that many stakeholders have short-lists of the fields they need to make this worthwhile. |
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/29/SearchMeta
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| | Metadata at W3C |
| | Metadata is machine understandable information for the web. | | | The list is the mailing list for discussion of all issues relevant to the development, deployment, and use of Dublin Core metadata. | | | For details, please browse the dc-general list information. |
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http://www.w3.org/Metadata
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| | NSGIC Metadata Primer |
| | When map data are in a digital form, metadata is equally as important, but its development and maintenance often require a more conscious effort on the part of data producers and the chain of subsequent users who may modify the data to suit their particular needs. | | | The metadata creation tool selected to develop the coastal recession metadata was Peter Schweitzer's xtme, a program that runs on UNIX workstations. | | | Metadata can be organized into several levels ranging from a simple listing of basic information about available data to detailed documentation about an individual data set. |
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http://www.lic.wisc.edu/metadata/metaprim.htm
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| | A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata: Progress report on reconciling metadata requirements from the Dublin ... |
| | This recognition of the "modular dependence" of metadata lies at the heart of the INDECS project. | | | A "logical cluster of metadata" refers to one occurrence of the fifteen repeatable DC metadata elements, referring to a particular state of an information resource. | | | It is important to envision how these various metadata sets might be reassembled into a human readable form, or how a "record" might fully contain everything that a user might want to find out about a particular manifestation of a work. |
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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html
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| | Metadata Activity |
| | When the metadata is processed, software will recognize these property names and deal with the metadata accordingly. | | | Work on Metadata is part of W3C's Technology and Society Domain. | | | The RDF language allows each document containing metadata to clarify which vocabulary is being used by assigning each vocabulary a Web address. |
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http://www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html
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| | Half an Hour: Metadata |
| | For example, learning object metadata, instead of pointing to contributor metadata, uses instead vcard information embedded within the metadata. | | | But to do as RSS and Dublin Core do, to actually use a string to designate the 'creator' of a reasource, is to embed external metadata into the current metadata. | | | The problem with this - and the reason why normalization is so important in database management - is that such metadata constitutes an ambiguous reference. |
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http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2005/07/metadata.html
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| | Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources |
| | Contains an overview on the use of PICS to form a base for encoding and transmitting metadata derived from the Dublin core and the Warwick framework. | | | SWISH-E is a free software program that will index document collections and that supports metadata searching. | | | These remain useful documents for learning about the dimensions of the problem of metadata. |
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http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm
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| | NSDI MetaData and WWW Mapping Sites |
| | Z39.50 Version 2 or 3 servers are planned to serve such hierarchically-organized metadata records and serve related document forms (browse graphics, different representations of the metadata record, and the digital spatial data set itself in a common exchange format) as either variants or as embedded URL links. | | | The DublinCore is not designed to supplant existing metadata schemes, but rather to represent a semantic framework that may allow for interoperability among differing collections of information and to recognize the need for extensible hooks for more refined searching within a particular domain. | | | The document directory contains the metadata files as well as other document files (ascii) that should help you understand what a DRG is and the status of the project. |
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http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html
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| | Metadata |
| | A common definition of the term is "data about data." Metadata can serve many functions in data administration, including detailing the data's history, conditions for use, format, and management requirements. | | | In this electronic age where digital information is being created at a fantastic rate, tools are necessary to locate, access, manage, and understand it all—and that's where metadata comes in. | | | Introduce yourself to metadata, its functions, and its importance in managing electronic records. |
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http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/metadata.html
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| | South Florida Information Access - Metadata |
| | On this page you will find links to metadata and the project each metadata is associated with. | | | Levee 30 Unit Seepage Values (data set metadata) | | | Levee 30 Daily Seepage Values (data set metadata) |
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http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata
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| | What is metadata? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Metadata is essential for understanding information stored in data warehouses and has become increasingly important in XML-based Web applications. | | | You are in the: Small Business Computing Channel | | | Metadata describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/metadata.html
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| | Metadata Resource Center |
| | Mike Daconta, Metadata Program Manager at the Department of Homeland Security, introduces the notion of a formal taxonomy in the context of the Federal Enteriprise Architecture's Data Reference Model. | | | Bob DuCharme introduces XMP, Adobe's RDF-based specification for embedding metadata into digital artifacts. | | | Apart from the process used to build the specification and the rigor of the documentation, Ben Hammersley writes in this introduction to the Atom Syndication Format that the two substantive differences are preservation of metadata and the concept of constructs. |
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http://www.xml.com/metadata
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| | Dublin Core Metadata Element Set [encyclopedia] |
| | EncycloZine.com > Reference > Library > Classification > Metadata: RDF | | | Products related to Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: books, DVD, electronics, garden, kitchen, magazines, music, photo, posters, software, tools, toys, VHS, videogames | | | If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource. |
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http://encyclozine.com/Reference/Library/Classification/Metadata
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| | Data and Information Products: Metadata |
| | Metadata greatly minimize duplication of effort in the collection of expensive digital data and foster sharing of digital data resources. | | | Metadata makes it possible for data users to search, retrieve, and evaluate data set information from the NBII's vast network of biological databases by providing standardized descriptions of geospatial and biological data. | | | Metadata ultimately makes information about data sets more easily accessible to scientists and researchers. |
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http://www.nbii.gov/datainfo/metadata
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| | Metadata |
| | The concept of metadata, when applied in the context of current libraries, digital or traditional, typically refers to information that | | | Metadata standards: with brief descriptions and examples of implementations | | | Other-physical-form record, for scanned image of a frame |
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http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata
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| | Technorati Tag: metadata |
| | For Windows users interested in Nick Santilli's recent article, Metadata as a filing system, blogger Todd Slater has a Windows alternative. | | | InfoLibrarian Metadata Solutions Cost effective Turn-key solutions for metadata management across the enterprise. | | | Create Metadata from Actual Data Exeros DataMapper automatically discovers, generates, and documents metadata within and between data sets. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/metadata
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| | metadata - Definitions from Dictionary.com |
| | n : data about data; "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications" | | | either of the word "metadata" or "meta data". | | | HighBeam Research - 32 million documents from leading publications |
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=metadata
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| | Metadata: Clearinghouse |
| | The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Clearinghouse is an initiative to help you locate, evaluate, and access biological data and information from a distributed network of cooperating data and information sources. | | | The NBII Clearinghouse also functions as a registered node of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Clearinghouse ((NSDI)), since many of the biological databases described in the NBII Clearinghouse are geospatially referenced. | | | Because the focus of the NBII is on all types of biological data and information, the NBII Clearinghouse also accommodates metadata descriptions of data sets and information products that are not explicitly geospatial, such as the results of laboratory research. |
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http://www.nbii.gov/datainfo/metadata/clearinghouse
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| | 0 : Metadata — Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| | Get the byline - contains details about author and modification date. | | | You are here: Home → Metadata → Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata → 0 : Metadata | | | Metadata -- data about the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data. |
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http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/csdgm/00.html
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| | UKOLN Metadata |
| | We have also been involved in the following projects and initiatives in the past: | | | Metadata can be defined literally as "data about data," but the term is normally understood to mean structured data about digital (and non-digital) resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. | | | In the context of digital resources, there exists a wide variety of metadata formats. |
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata
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| | META - Metadata |
| | The following example defines the author of the document: | | | META properties, so authors may define whatever metadata they like. | | | To avoid being truncated by search engines, the description should be brief--no more than 200 characters. |
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http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html
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