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2 definitions found From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: meta-data /me't*-day`t*/, or combinations of /may'-/ or (Commonwealth) /mee'-/; /-dah`t*/ (Or "meta data") Data about {data}. In {data processing}, meta-data is definitional data that provides information about or documentation of other data managed within an application or environment. For example, meta data would document data about {data elements} or {attributes}, (name, size, data type etc) and data about {records} or {data structures} (length, fields, columns, etc) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.). Meta data may include descriptive information about the context, quality and condition, or characteristics of the data. Not to be confused with {Metadata}. (1997-04-06) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Metadata(Note: One unhyphenated word with initial capital; contrast {meta data}) A word coined by Jack E. Myers to represent current and future lines of products implementing the concepts of his {MetaModel}, and also to designate his company {The Metadata Company} that would develop and market those products. A data and publication search performed when Myers coined the term, early in the summer of 1969, did not discover any use either of the word metadata" or "meta data". Myers used the term in a 1973 product brochure and it is an Incontestable registered U.S. Trademark. (1997-04-06)
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