metadata

(noun)

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

Related Terms

Examples of metadata in the following topics:

  • Introduction to Version Control

    • The core of version control is change management: identifying each discrete change made to the project's files, annotating each change with metadata like the change's date and author, and then replaying these facts to whoever asks, in whatever way they ask.

  • Information and Knowledge

    • Retrieving information is an integral part of information gathering and with today's technology it can involve searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents.

  • Quality Assurance (i.e., Professional Testing)

    • Even if your company's internal bug tracking software were the same as that used by the public project, management might need to make company-specific comments and metadata changes to the tickets (for example, to raise an ticket's internal priority, or schedule its resolution for a particular customer).

  • Name and Layout

    • A CHANGES file is different.It too is a list of changes, but only the ones thought important for a certain audience to see, and often with metadata like the exact date and author stripped off.

  • Introduction

    • The nature of resources has changed as a result of technological developments and the ability to catalog and classify digital media.Considerable opportunities are now available to teachers and students.Metadata--data about data--provides information about documents that can be retrieved by searching for the author, creation date, or content (Hill & Hannafin, 2001).Technology allows teachers or students to use those parts of resources that will satisfy their curiosity or educational needs.The boundaries that once separated teachers and students from resources are virtually gone.

  • Version Control Vocabulary

    • A working copy also contains some version control metadata saying what repository it comes from, what branch it represents, and a few other things.

  • Using the Version Control System

    • In some systems, merges are special events, fundamentally distinct from commits, and carry their own metadata with them.