What is ‘Metadata’?

• meaningless jargon, or;
• a fashionable term for what we’ve always done, or;
• “a means of turning data into information”, and;
• “data about data”, and;
• the name of a film director (‘Luc Besson’), and;
• the title of a book (‘The Lord of the Flies’)
• etc

• Metadata means many things to many people
  • AHDS is currently concerned primarily with resource discovery metadata.

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