what is metadata?

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what is metadata?..

Answer / chowdary

Commonly known as "data about data" it is the data
describing context, content and structure of records and
their management through time

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what is metadata?..

Answer / metadat is data about datas

Metadata is data about data..it will have all information
about mappings and transformations.

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what is metadata?..

Answer / giri

metadata is a structure of data, information about
mappings and transformations

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what is metadata?..

Answer / ram

meda data is data about data

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what is metadata?..

Answer / deepu

A metadata is Data about data . The repositary contains the
metadata , it means all the information of the mappings,
task.....etc

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what is metadata?..

Answer / mounika

Metadata is nothing but data about data.As metadata
contains information related to data from where data is
and connections to data.

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what is metadata?..

Answer / dilly pratap

metadata comprises of all information about mapping design &
transformation.....

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what is metadata?..

Answer / rao

and information about designer/developer like email address,etc.

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