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In general, metadata means data that describes data. For example, in photography, we store our photographs as RAW or JPG files. That is the data. But we also store the following information: which camera we used to take the photographs, the aperture and ISO settings of the camera, the resolution of each photograph, where it was taken, when it was taken, and a few words describing the content of the photo. That is all metadata.
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(2008). Metadata. In: Building a Data Warehouse. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0528-9_10
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