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

• Dublin Core
• Learning Object Metadata Standard
• Library standards such as MARC
• Bibliographic Citation standards like APA
• Information Space standards such as Topic Maps or RSS