At the basic core,
metadata will answer the following in reference to the assets within the organization: What
do we have, what does it mean, where is it, how did it get there, and how do I get it? Metadata
includes the descriptive information but also includes the overall information management
of metadata within the organization (Tannenbaum, 2001). Marco (2000) defined metadata
as all of the physical data and knowledge-containing information about the business and
technical processes, and data, used by the corporation. Rarely are the concepts of metadata
placed on the front end of a project or systematically addressed during the design process.
Yet, every project at some point will ask the very questions that metadata can address. In
the data warehouse world, metadata focuses on the data definitions, transformation rules,
and logical entity/attribute definitions. In the Web world, Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) utilizes the Metatag to add metadata definitions to Web pages. Office documents
add metadata through the file properties, and metadata is no stranger to the library science
field of study either. Librarians define metadata as structured information that describes a
resource where the resource could be a book, journal, newspaper, corporate report, or any
other element within the library.
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