Metadata

In the 2010s, metadata teepically refers tae deegital forms; houever, even tradeetional caird catalogues frae the 1960s an 1970s are an example o metadata, as the cairds conteen information aboot the beuks in the librar (author, teetle, subject, etc.).

Metadata is "data [information] that provides information aboot ither data". Three distinct teeps o metadata exeest: structural metadata, descriptive metadata, an admeenistrative metadata.