What is Metadata?

Maintaining Metadata

• What is metadata?
  • e.g. food labeling comparison
    
    
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standard
  • key components
    • example: National Airports
      
• Data Dictionaries
  • critical details most often viewed
    • Entity Type and Attribute
      • examples (see packet)
        
        
  • top ten (10) metadata errors
    
    

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