metadata

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Metadata is simply data about data, and in terms of data management, describe a data set and can categorized into three types, which are descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata (UNC, 2023).
It is a shorthand representation of the data which they refer, or when use analogies, it is reference to data (ODS, 2016).
It is a set of data providing information about other data, since it contextualizes other data, which makes the data easier to find, understand, use, and manage (Farrier, 2022).
Metadata is data that describes other data and digital files often include metadata to provide information about the file and its contents as in digital image and document files (Pickle, 2022).