Overview#
Metadata is a (string, token, key, Attribute, Property, Indirect Identifier) that provides Classification or describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, identify use, or manage a 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.
Metadata and Big data#
With advances of Big data and Machine Learning models, Metadata may be used to Uniquely provide Identification of an Entity even though the Metadata was supposed to be Anonymous[1] which brings into question the ability for Data anonymizationMore Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- APEX
- Acceptable Use
- Access Token Validation
- Atom
- BOUNDLESSINFORMANT
- CTAP2
- Containerization vs Metadata
- DNS Privacy Considerations
- Data Accuracy
- Data Currency
- Data Metadata
- Data Origin
- Data Pedigree
- Data Privacy
- Data Security Analytics
- EXtensible Resource Descriptor Sequence
- Explicit Endpoint
- FALLOUT
- FIDO Alliance Metadata Service
- FIDO Authenticator
- Google Cloud Resource Manager API
- HAMMERSTEIN
- HTTP Status Code
- Hashtag
- Host-meta
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP 1.1) Conditional Requests
- IDP Metadata
- Identifier
- Indirect Identifier
- JSON Resource Descriptor
- JSON Web Tokens
- JWK Set
- Jwks_uri
- MAINWAY
- MARINA
- Malicious Endpoint
- Mutual TLS Sender Constrained Resources Access
- NISTIR 8112
- Network traffic
- OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata
- OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection
- Object storage
- OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout
- OpenID Connect Federation
- Openid-configuration
- PRESSUREWAVE
- Payload
- Provenance
- Representational State Transfer
- Resource Description Framework
- Rights Expression Language
- TRAFFICTHIEF
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
- Verifiable Claims
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- Web Blog_blogentry_040817_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_061218_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_170617_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_290417_1
- Web host-meta data
- WebAuthn Attestation
- [#1] - Researchers can identify people behind 'anonymous' data 90% of the time
- based on information obtained 2019-09-03
