Overview#

Metadata structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an data.

Metadata may be thought of as Attributes about the data

Metadata is often called data about data or information about information.

Metadata may be obtained for the data by users, or by automated capture from cameras or scanners or other methods.

Metadatais stored in two main places:

• Internally – embedded in the data.
• Externally – outside the data Digital Asset Management (DAM) system or by a “sidecar” file, such as XMP, or an external news exchange format file.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• APEX
• Atom
• BOUNDLESSINFORMANT
• DNS Privacy Considerations
• Data Accuracy
• Data Currency
• Data Metadata
• Data Origin
• Data Pedigree
• Data Security Analytics
• EXtensible Resource Descriptor Sequence
• Explicit Endpoint
• FIDO Authenticator
• Google Cloud Resource Manager API
• HAMMERSTEIN
• HTTP Status Code
• Host-meta
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP 1.1) Conditional Requests
• IDP Metadata
• JSON Resource Descriptor
• JSON Web Tokens
• JWK Set
• Jwks_uri
• Malicious Endpoint
• Mutual TLS Sender Constrained Resources Access
• OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata
• OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection
• Object storage
• OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout
• OpenID Connect Federation
• Openid-configuration
• PRESSUREWAVE
• Provenance
• Representational State Transfer
• Resource Description Framework
• Rights Expression Language
• Uniform Resource Identifier
• Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
• Verifiable Claims
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• Web host-meta data