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How to make the most of metadata
What are the different types of metadata? This five-minute video provides a concise overview of the six categories of data about data.
Metadata plays an essential role in data management, giving data context and turning it into information people can easily find and use. But metadata is also a broad term covering many categories of “data about data”.
In this short video and accompanying map, Harry Cummings—our Principal Technical Consultant—breaks down and discusses the different kinds of metadata.
Your metadata map
Understanding the different categories of metadata and how they are used allows you to focus your time and effort on the metadata that is most valuable to your organisation.
Download the map below to share with your team:
Copyright: Softwire
Harry Cummings
19 December 2024
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