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Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
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Our Centres & Institutes
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Centre for Health Policy
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Metadata Database
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About the database
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What is metadata?
What is metadata?
- Metadata is data about data; it is information which describes other data.
- Metadata is the formalised structured description of content, quality, condition or other characteristics of data
- Assists users in finding relevant information and discovering resources through bringing similar information together
- Identifies where information is located
- Can be stored and managed in a database, often called a metadata registry or repository
- Can be stored internally, in the same file as the data (also known as embedded metadata)
- Can be stored externally, in a separate file from the described data
- Structured in a formalised way through consensus and the application of International standards