Metadata Record

A Metadata Record is a Data Record that contains Metadata about a Data Record/Data Structure.

• Context:
  • It can have an Identifier.
  • It can have one or more Metadata Record Attributes.
• Example(s):
  • a Data Attribute Metadata Record.
  • a Semantic Metadata Record ..
• See: Metadata, Data Structure, Structured Dataset, Structured Data Record.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=metadata
  • S: (n) metadata (data about data) "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications"
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metadata
  • Information about other information.
    • Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay the words out on the screen.

2008

• (Dextre Clarke et al., 2008) ⇒ Stella Dextre Clarke, Alan Gilchrist, Ron Davies and Leonard Will. (2008). “Glossary of Terms Relating to Thesauri and Other Forms of Structured Vocabulary for Information Retrieval." Willpower Information
  • metadata
    • data that describes characteristics of a document
    • Metadata is essentially a catalogue record, providing (a) access points by which records of documents can be sorted or retrieved and (b) descriptive information, by which the relevance of a document can be assessed without consulting it in full. Preferred terms or notations selected during the indexing process are commonly applied as metadata elements to describe the subject of a document.

2005

• (Woodley, 2005b) ⇒ Mary S. Woodley, Gail Clement, and Pete Winn. (2005). “DCMI Glossary." Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
  • metadata record: A syntactically correct representation of the descriptive information (metadata) for an information resource. In the case of Dublin Core, a representation of the Dublin Core elements that has been defined for the resource. The majority of metadata records and record fragments in this document are presented in HTML syntax.

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