metadata

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

meta- +‎ data

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/, X-SAMPA: /"mEt.@%deI.t@/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

metadata (uncountable)

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

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

Related terms

• metainformation

Translations

data that describes data

• Arabic: بيانات وصفية (ar) (bayānāt waṣfíyya) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 元數據 (cmn), 元数据 (cmn) (yuánshùjù)

• French: métadonnées (fr) f pl
• German: Metadaten (de) pl
• Icelandic: lýsigögn (is) n pl
• Japanese: メタデータ (ja) (metadēta)

• Korean: 메타데이터 (ko) (metadeiteo)
• Persian: فراداده (fa) (farâdâde)
• Russian: метаданные (ru) (metadánnyje) n pl
• Spanish: metadatos (es) m pl
• Turkish: üstveri (tr)
• Vietnamese: siêu dữ liệu (vi)

See also

• tag

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Swedish

Noun

metadata c

1. metadata; data about data, information about information

Usage notes

• Rarely inflected. Both common gender (metadatan) and neuter (metadatat) have been used. See data.

Related terms

• metadatahantering
• metadataschema
• metadatastruktur