What is Metadata

Metadata is data that labels other data. It is often described as “data about data”. For instance, metadata could be the number of words in a text, the number of files in a folder, a title of the columns in a table, the size of a file etc. Metadata is useful to organize other data, facilitating its storage and future use.

Metadata

Metadata is data that labels other data.

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