What do you mean by Meta data ?

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bind mama

  • Feb 5th, 2007
 

Data about data is called Meta data.

Meta Data provides a context for data. It is used to faciliate the understanding,characteristics, and management usage of data. E.g. we have as:

metadata for :

Book: author,publisher,ISBN,and number or other data.

Camera: the photographtaken details like the date on which it was published and the details of the camera settings(lens,focal length etc.).

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