Word Finder - metadata

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Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.

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Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.

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Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).

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That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.

The nationwide metadata enhanced search engine proved infeasible, federated metadata initiatives were not.

This contains 143 metadata records for digitized photographs from the Springburn Community Museum, part of the Glasgow Digital Library.

For more information about the operation of the built-in JPEG plug-ins, see the JPEG metadata format specification and usage notes.

This resource provides links to a selection of more than 70 formal metadata vocabularies, most of which are available via the Internet.

How much control do you need of the metadata and underlying code of your posts?

The Warwick Framework container architecture was developed to permit the aggregation of different metadata types [16] .

Thus the ' landscape ' can be simplified by only including the ' closest ' most appropriate metadata aggregation matching the user's definition.

The prospect of authors adding their own metadata now becomes attractive.

Metadata Workflow Investigation MWI is a study of metadata creation and management processes within the JISC Information Environment.

Comments Comments provide additional details and guidance for the metadata creator.

However, such metadata is often unavailable, and consequently automated extraction is required.

A number of metadata formats currently exist, influenced by the needs of the communities in which they emerged.

From the conceptual model, a database design can be derived, or a definition of metadata.

Maybe data mining really should only be done within the context of a clearly defined ontology of metadata.

The syntax of the Batch Load file consists of name/value pairs that specify the metadata for each file and the action to perform.

Not all files have all three sections; some files may be missing the preamble, or the preamble and metadata.

A metadata schema, based on Dublin Core, was then designed to describe the datasets.

Of central importance is the underlying complexity of the format and this suggests a typology of metadata along the continuum from simplicity to complexity.

The dictionary is therefore more than just a repository of metadata.

The interface itself does not restrict what you use to index the metadata.

Restricted vocabularies therefore become essential within certain metadata elements.

Initially, we plan to use the Dublin core metadata elementsto index the pages on the superjournal web site.

A sophisticated metadata set can encompass a wide variety of information about an object.

The next four lines of code create some simple metadata to attach to the raster map.