TY - JOUR T1 - Metadata in a nutshell Y1 - 2001 A1 - Michael Day AB -

Metadata is sometimes defined literally as 'data about data,' but the term is normally understood to mean structured data about resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. These might include, for example, resource description and discovery, the management of information resources and their long-term preservation.

PB - UKOLN: the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath, UK CY - Bath UR - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/nutshell/ N1 -

[Draft of an article published in Information Europe 6(2), Summer 2001, p. 11. Information Europe is the quarterly magazine of EBLIDA (the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations)].

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