metadata — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.

2. Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.

Sostantivo

1. data about data

   Termini più generali

   datainformation

   Esempi

   a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications