Metadata

Open Data
FAIR
Author

Esther Plomp, Image: Piotr Kononow

Published

July 27, 2023

Metadata is data about data.

An image with three bottles with coloured substances and labels. The content of the bottles is the data, and the labels are the metadata. This is helpful information if you want to distinguish between a bottle with labels that say: Juice, Oil and a skull.

Image by Piotr Kononow

See the video made by TU Delft library on documentation and metadata (4 min).

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