Metadata

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Definition

From the Wikipedia:Metadata: Metadata (Greek: meta- + Latin: data "information"), literally "data about data", are information about another set of data.

Standards of interest to education

Languages to create taxonomies
Bibliographic
  • Library standards such as MARC
  • Bibliographic Citation standards like APA
Organizing, describing information
  • Information Space standards such as Topic Maps or more sophisticated RDF/OWL based semantic networks
  • RSS
Folksomic (natural) tagging

References