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**DavidShreder** · 08-16-2006, 07:00 AM

OK I'm a web design noob, what do you mean by metadata?

In my Systems Analysis and Systems Design classes in college, they defined metadata as "data about the data". In other words, a brief explanation of the data required, without actual coding. Kind of a way of explaining to the coder what it is you are trying to make. (At my college, IT people were in Business Administration, Computer Science people were in the School of Engineering and Sciences.)

08-16-2006, 07:00 AM	#10
DavidShreder Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	OK I'm a web design noob, what do you mean by metadata? In my Systems Analysis and Systems Design classes in college, they defined metadata as "data about the data". In other words, a brief explanation of the data required, without actual coding. Kind of a way of explaining to the coder what it is you are trying to make. (At my college, IT people were in Business Administration, Computer Science people were in the School of Engineering and Sciences.)
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